15.4 million doses of the COVID vaccine have been delivered to states, but only 4.5 million Americans have received their first shot.
Having accurate data on the health workforce is essential to direct policy and can help produce better results for health care providers and their patients.
Countless medical professionals who care for COVID-19 patients have struggled to get vaccinated.
Hospitalizations in New York have doubled since early December, and daily new cases are up 27% from a week ago.
In addition to numerous other pandemic stressors, clinicians must care for disbelieving patients while they see continued disregard for masks and social distancing as part of a calculated disinformation campaign.
Despite the scope of the problem, there is plenty organizations can do to help healthcare workers.
Clinicians across the country are struggling both mentally and financially as the pandemic enters a new phase with record case numbers.
Retired healthcare workers, most of whom were 65 years and older, had a variety of motivations for risking their lives during the pandemic.
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.
The benefits of telemedicine reveal themselves as doctors and patients are forced to new forms of appointments.