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How U.S. hospitals are responding to staffing shortages across the country.
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How hospitals across the U.S. are finding creative ways to handle a potential shortage in nurses, doctors, other medical staff due to COVID-19.

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  1. MUST READ……….LOL

    “*A RECAP OF THE LAST THREE WEEKS*

    AMERICA: Oh my god! Coronavirus! What should we do?

    CALIFORNIA: Shut down your state.

    AMERICA: Wait… what? Why?

    CALIFORNIA: Because we need to stop
    the spread of the virus, just shut your
    state down.

    NEBRASKA: Whoa… whoa… let’s not be hasty now. The President said that this whole coronavirus thing is a Democratic hoax.

    CALIFORNIA: He also said that windmills cause cancer. Shut down your state.

    TEXAS: But the President said that we only have 15 cases and soon it’ll be zero.

    CALIFORNIA: The President can’t count to fifteen nor even spell it. Shut down your state.

    NEW JERSEY: Us too?

    CALIFORNIA: Yes, you guys too. Just like when Christie shut down the bridge, but it’s your whole state.

    FLORIDA: But what about all these kids here on spring break?? They spend a lot of money here!

    CALIFORNIA: Those kids invented the Tide pod challenge. Shut down your state.

    LOUISIANA: But wait let’s have Mardi Gras first. It entertains people.

    CALIFORNIA: It also kills them. Shut it down.

    GEORGIA: Ok well how about we keep the state open for all of our mega churches? Maybe we can all pray really hard until the coronavirus just goes away!

    CALIFORNIA: Which is working like a charm for mass shootings. Jesus told us to tell you to shut down your state.

    OKLAHOMA: What about the tigers?

    CALIFORNIA: What about a dentist. Shut it down.

    WYOMING: Hold up, maybe we should go county by county like the president said.

    CALIFORNIA: Stop acting like there are counties in Wyoming. There are no counties in Wyoming. Wyoming is a county. Shut it down.

    PENNSYLVANIA: But big coal.

    CALIFORNIA: But big death. Shut it.

    WEST VIRGINIA: But we were the last state to get coronavirus!

    CALIFORNIA: And don’t make us explain to you why that was. Shut it down.

    NORTH CAROLINA: But the Republican National Convention is coming here!

    CALIFORNIA: SHUT… OK, fine, do what you want.”

    1. Clint Richardson DankWear Administrator layoffs of non-essential hospital workers but a lot of new jobs for doctors and nurses

  2. Ok how come, nurses that have bought their own n95 masks and gear are being reprimanded by hospitals right now? This is happening right now as we speak, why isn’t this being talked about more in the media?

    1. DankWear Administrator layoffs of non-essential hospital workers but a lot of new jobs for doctors and nurses

    2. Me too because no outpatient or appointment coming into the hospital. There losing business on that part of the business

  3. Minus ny ,nj and hot spots, Americas hospitals are idle, empty, laying off.
    Our state has layed off thousands and thousands .

  4. Interesting. I just watched another report saying they were laying off hospital staff because of the lack of patients. Which, in itself, says that if this was such a calamity then there should be plenty of work. Or is the media pushing fear and trying to keep us confused? Or maybe playing damage control because hospital layoffs don’t bolster the narrative?

  5. Reallocate any of the many thousands of furloughed hospital workers as is being done now in Boston. The numbers of sick/dying aren’t anywhere near what was projected, but those in the initial wave of care givers are still tired from excess work, especially after absorbing many patients who would have been in another part of the hospital, if they hadn’t shut everything else down to accommodate the tsunami (that was only about one foot high) or Covid-19 patients. Can’t fault (most of) the doctors and nurses – God bless ’em all. But boy…will there be a reckoning for ruin so many thousands more livelihoods, businesses (and lives!) in coming weeks! Watch all the deflections of responsibility ensue.

  6. I’m a travel RN. Thousands of us are getting our contracts cancelled and sent home. Including New York. The hospitals are empty. No heads in the beds. General Med Surg RNs especially but even ICU and ER nurses are getting sent home. Many of my RN friends are being forced to use PTO time or were cut from Fulltime to Part time NO WORK FOR RNs right now

    1. I’ve seen 30+ year MD’s get fired after being bought out by a large staffing agency. Doctors are forced to comply to new terms (more hours, being on-call every 3rd night, lower pay, etc.). Many are choosing to retire instead of continuing work. Some hot shot CEO decided everyone is expendable and is trying to cut costs during this pandemic.

  7. See a lot of doctors in New York and all over the rest of the making a lot of tik Tok videos when they supposed to be working

  8. Then why are so many hospitals sending their nurses home early? Stop lying! #fakenews! You guys are out of control!

  9. USA Today, Maybe you should start listening and paying attention to what is going on? You miss the mark big-time, EVERYTIME! Plus you state stuff that is nowhere close to being true. Maybe time to throw in the gloves? You are not being of service to the people when you don’t get the facts correct.

  10. Plus your Twitter comment tape across the screen is super irritating! We honestly don’t want to read your personal opinions. We want to hear for ourselves what is going on and what the people are saying! Please, remove that stupid opinion tape.

  11. Lol y’all can’t keep your headlines straight… LAYING OFF – HIRING – LAYING OFF – HIRING

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