On Tuesday, a group of nurses and community members protested in a caravan outside of the Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica again, asking hospital officials to provide hotel rooms so healthcare workers can prevent spreading the coronavirus to their families as they continue to fight the pandemic.

With estimates of the number of healthcare workers infected by the coronavirus continuing to climb, nurses are taking action to protect themselves if their management won't.

As a result, nurse-led protests are popping up all over the country, including one on the White House doorstep, where worried nurses gathered last week to demand greater protection for healthcare workers on the frontlines and more consistency from the CDC and the administration regarding what are genuinely safe COVID-19 protocols for healthcare workers.

They strongly criticized the CDC for saying nurses could be given bandanas to wear instead of proper N95 masks.

"We are here because our colleagues are dying. I think that right now people think of us as heroes, but we're feeling like martyrs," a nurse told NBC News.

They called upon President Donald Trump to immediately and fully invoke the Defense Production Act to urgently increase the production of respirators, face shields, coveralls, gowns and surgical masks - something that Trump has so far refused to do.

Instead, Trump told the states to figure out their own medical supply sources and not expect the federal government's help - an announcement which sent shock waves throughout the country.

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