Category: COVID-19 for Employers

Nov 30
Hospitals Scramble to Get Ready for Coronavirus Vaccines

From ultra-cold storage capabilities to extra security staff, facilities are bracing now for their role in distribution of an eventual vaccine.

Nov 25
‘Essential Workers’ Likely to get Earlier Access to COVID-19 Vaccine

Essential workers are likely to move ahead of adults 65 and older and people with high-risk medical conditions when the CDC signs off on COVID-19 vaccine priority lists.

Nov 25
Doctors Are Calling It Quits Under Stress of the Pandemic

Clinicians across the country are struggling both mentally and financially as the pandemic enters a new phase with record case numbers.

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.