Trump Says He’s Looking at Hazard Pay for Health-Care Workers

President Donald Trump said his administration is considering ways to compensate health-care workers with supplemental hazard pay as they grapple with the coronavirus outbreak.

Medical workers in a Monut Sinai ambulance respond to a call in the Financial District of New York, March 30.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump said his administration is considering ways to compensate health-care workers with supplemental hazard pay as they grapple with the coronavirus outbreak.

“It’s something we’re discussing in terms of bonus or bonus pay,” Trump said Wednesday evening during a White House briefing. “They’re like warriors, they’re like soldiers,” he said of doctors, nurses and other health-care workers dealing with the pandemic.