Its going to be everywhere. A nurse told me today the healthcare system is overwhelmed not because of Covid but because of staffing shortages.
And a followup to that, If you have a huge Covid crisis and such a “deadly” virus, why would you fire the people who already worked through covid for the past year and a half - on covid units and have probably already been exposed and recovered or had mild symptoms? Why would you get rid of healthcare workers in mass if you have a crisis? You wouldn’t!
“A nurse told me today the healthcare system is overwhelmed not because of Covid but because of staffing shortages.”
I’m hearing this also. My son is in Radiology and he’s being asked to pull multiple shifts because the hospital system he works for won’t hire sufficient personnel. Another agency he works for now and then is always calling him to take shifts. He says morale is already at the bottom of the barrel with no end in sight.
Daughter-in-law works in Elder Care in the same hospital system, with the same situation, plus all the new regulations coming down from on high that are nothing more than busy-work and paperwork.
Both are now looking for other opportunities outside healthcare.