The European experience with COVID-19 could have been a teaching moment for global protocols and measures needed to protect workers from being exposed to the disease, and therefore not repeat the same mistakes as the disease spread to Latin America. Unfortunately in Chile, health workers at the Talca, Departamental, O'Higgins and IIEM San Bernardo clinics of the multinational Fresenius, operating under the Nephrocare brand, have faced the global pandemic with limited personal protective equipment (PPE) at work.