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COVID-19 Has Killed Close To 300 U.S. Health Care Workers, New Data From CDC Shows
More than 60,000 health care workers have contracted the coronavirus, up from 9,000 in April. Workers say they face unnecessary risks because of ongoing shortages of protective gear like masks.
CDC Reports A Spike In COVID-19 Death Among Health Care Workers
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a big jump in the coronavirus cases and deaths among U.S. health care workers since mid-April.
Doctors In Training Learn Hard Lessons During The Pandemic
There are some 130,000 medical residents in the U.S., and many are pulling long shifts in emergency departments and ICUs treating patients infected with the coronavirus.
Mystifying Virus Shapes Next Generation Of Doctors
The coronavirus is shaping a generation of incoming doctors, as their residency training inside U.S. hospitals brings them face to face with a mystifying disease and frequent death.
‘Eerie’ Emptiness of ERs Worries Doctors: Where Are The Heart Attacks And Strokes?
Is fear of the coronavirus causing ER avoidance? Doctors are seeing an alarming drop in cardiovascular emergency cases, They warn that delayed care can lead to brain damage or even death.
Palliative Care Helped Family Face ‘The Awful, Awful Truth’
Elizabeth and Robert Mar would have celebrated 50 years of marriage in August. Instead, they died within a day of each other. Their two very different deaths illustrate how palliative care is changing to help patients and families cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
Patients Dying Fast, And Far From Family, Challenge Practice of Palliative Care
For one family who lost both mother and father to the coronavirus, palliative care clinicians helped them face “the awful, awful truth.”
Coronavirus Nurses Ask An Ebola Veteran: Is It OK To Be Afraid?
Martha Phillips traveled to Sierra Leone during the Ebola epidemic in 2014 to serve as a nurse. Now, she’s working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, advising her colleagues on how to stay safe.
‘It’s Like Walking Into Chernobyl,’ One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room
Some health care workers say they’re exhausted and burning out from the stress of treating a stream of critically ill patients in an increasingly overstretched health care system.
Health Care Workers Confront Equipment Shortages, Infection Threat, Emotional Stress
Nurses and residents are confronting shortages of personal protective equipment and are being told to return to work soon after falling ill themselves. They worry they could make their patients sick.
