Nurses Pretend to Die During Ebola Protest in Las Vegas

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Dressed in hazmat costumes and red shirts, roughly 1,000 nurses gathered on the Las Vegas strip to call attention to the United States' level of preparedness in fighting a potential Ebola crisis at home.

The so-called "die-in" demonstrators, organized by nurses in Vegas for the Planet Nurse convention, said they don't believe U.S. hospitals could handle an Ebola outbreak.

The protesters marched through the Planet Hollywood casino and dropped to the ground in front of the Bellagio, pretending to be dead. Once on the ground, they outlined their bodies in chalk like a crime scene and wrote out the hashtag #StopEbolaRNRN Read more...

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