#Nurses

Like a great many, I hate the 'dying of' vs 'dying with' distinction ppl are trying to draw for the purposes of downplaying covid. (I obviously don't mind the actual
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With Covid-19 wave, the longstanding failures of India's under-supported healthcare system have been thrust into the spotlight.India's public healthcare spending has consistently hovered around 1% of the GDP. Even the
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I remember, in March, those days when the grim reality of COVID set in. Seeing the news out of Italy. The elderly not being able to access care. Allocation of
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Well, friends, today was my last shift in NYC after 5 weeks. I’ve worked 28 12-hour shifts in the last 33 days. I head home tomorrow completely exhausted. I am
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Okay so while I'm still a bit angry I am going to start with the "Bad News". So Covid-Update post-release: I was not intending to start a rant about this,
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I get the “armchair quarterback” comment. Everyone is a critic. Doesn’t matter what @BrianPallister and @roussin_brent do, someone will *always* criticize and have a different opinion. But, if you were
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asked if she thinks covid-19 has made voters more receptive to her agenda that voters didn't embrace in the primary, Warren tells @davidaxelrod: "Yes. I think the political moment has
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I’ve been on a Zoom happy hour for the past 2.75 hours and the group of 2 dozen has been dominated by the ER nurses, OBGYN and veterinarians which is
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A thread: about ICUs and Covid19Ab.My husband and I were talking about why people aren’t really getting the message about how taxed the hospital system is right now and we
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Thread: #Covid has shone a bright light on inequalities that have existed for far too long. We can no longer look away and ignore. As we continue through this crisis
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Hi everyone, I'm a ventilator! I have just one job: to breathe when your loved one can't. I'm life support. But it's a big job, and I can't do it
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Covering this now. Hearing from Dr. Hausheer. She introduced Dr. Aaron Wendelboe. He says COVID-19 has become the third-most common cause of death in the United States. "In Oklahoma, we
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1/ Now California is sending back extra ventilators too... As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, any new ventilators we build at this point will likely be very expensive furniture.
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Because everything about our world is structured in the language of violence and conquest. Pandemics are wars. Just as there's a war on poverty, drugs, crime, Christianity, our way of
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An Open Letter to First Year Nursing students; I’ve been in your shoes. Excited and terrified all at the same time. I’ll never forget my first day of nursing school.
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Not Covid-19 related death but this is still a new experience to me. Funeral homes are not allowed to come in and collect the body so We did post Mortem
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