The omicron variant of Covid is crushing health care workers already under strain from nearly 2 years of grappling with a pandemic — a situation that could result in "irreversible patient impacts," experts say. nbcnews.to/3HWTYcQ
“It has exploded. We’re in a crisis, red-tier situation again,” said Denise Duncan, a registered nurse and president of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.
Nearly 1-in-5 health care workers have quit their job since Feb. 2020, according to the data intelligence company Morning Consult, and another 12% have been laid off.
The biggest drivers of the exodus were the pandemic, burnout, and insufficient pay, the survey said.
The biggest drivers of the exodus were the pandemic, burnout, and insufficient pay, the survey said.
“We have doctors out sick, we have pharmacists out sick, the community is sick,” Duncan said. “It’s different from before. It was one thing when we didn’t have a vaccine. Now, I worry that the community has put our health care community at risk because of a failure to vaccinate."
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