Category: COVID-19 for the Workforce

Nov 24
Hospitals and Health Care Workers Issue a Call to Arms for Wearing Masks

With the pandemic raging in the U.S., a new ad campaign features frontline medical personnel pleading for everyone to mask up.

Nov 24
In Tough Medical Times, Travel Nurses in High Demand

The demand for travel nurses has soared since the pandemic collided with a general shortage of RNs across the country.

Nov 23
What Would Dr. Fauci Do?

In this recent podcast, Fauci talks about how to survive the coming winter months.

Nov 23
These Front-Line Workers Could Have Retired. They Risked Their Lives Instead.

Retired healthcare workers, most of whom were 65 years and older, had a variety of motivations for risking their lives during the pandemic.

Nov 20
‘People are going to die’: Hospitals in Half the States are Facing a Massive Staffing Shortage as COVID-19 Surges

Hospitals in at least 25 states are critically short of nurses, doctors, and other staff as coronavirus cases surge across the United States.

Nov 20
Healthcare Workers are Desperate for Americans to Listen: ‘We didn’t go to nursing school to be martyrs’

The U.S. is facing a dramatic increase in almost every single state just before what is traditionally a peak time for holiday travel across the country, a time that often causes another virus — the flu — to spread.

Nov 19
Doctors Apply COVID-19 Lessons Learned as U.S. Cases Surge

Months of hospital experience, global research, and drug trials are helping medical teams refine treatment.

Nov 18
The Third Surge is Breaking Healthcare Workers

More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19, and healthcare workers simply cannot go on like this.

Nov 17
‘Exhausted’: Tsunami of COVID-19 Cases Pushes Health Workers to the Breaking Point

The growing surge of COVID-19 patients is not only filling up available hospital beds, but it is straining the health care workers that are needed to actually treat the patients, to the point of debilitating burnout.

Nov 17
Doctors an Easy Mark for Hospital Cyberattackers

Fake emails from bosses, messages about COVID, PPE, vaccines: "Doctors have fallen for it multiple times."