Click here for the latest coronavirus news, which the BDN has made free for the public. You can support this mission by purchasing a digital subscription. Nurses in the Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center unit tasked with caring for COVID-19 patients submitted a letter to hospital administration on Friday with a list of demands that included a higher level of personal protective gear. In the letter, the nurses asked the hospital’s administration to provide N95 respirators for nurses treating suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients.