Posted on 05/09/2020 6:35:43 AM PDT by buckalfa
Healthcare lost 1.4 million jobs in April amid the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily in ambulatory healthcare services, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The April count compares to 43,000 healthcare jobs lost in March.
Within ambulatory healthcare services, April job losses included offices of dentists (503,300), offices of physicians (243,300), and offices of other healthcare practitioners (205,100).
Hospitals lost 134,900 jobs last month, compared to the 200 positions they added to the U.S. economy in March.
The April jobs report marks the second consecutive month that healthcare employment did not grow. In the 12 months prior to March — the month the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 spread a pandemic — industry employment had grown by 374,000, according to the bureau.
Bloomberg reported the number of healthcare workers has doubled to 16 million in the last three decades, and until March, the industry has lost jobs in only four months during that period.
Overall, the U.S. lost 20.5 million jobs in April, and the unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent, the highest since the Great Depression, according to the bureau.
The unemployment rate does not reflect Americans still working who have had their hours or pay reduced, The New York Times noted.
Yea, we’re being lied to.
We've laid off several nurses and administrators at the hospital where I work in NorCal
. Our Lab and X-Ray used to operate 24 hours a day, now it's Monday to Friday 8-4:30.
We haven't had any elective or emergency surgeries, in over a month.
We've had 3 covid patients. All mild cases. Several tests that came back negative.
We spent tens of thousands of dollars converting our ob/gyn wing to conventional rooms in preparation of overflow from Sacramento and other more highly populated areas around us.
Never happened.
All that gaslighting, the telling the people we need to shutdown “elective” medical procedures, you know, like life saving gall bladder surgeries. The gaslighting convinced people that the virus was going to consume all medical capabilities and then some.
Weren’t they all overworked, hospitals overcrowded, and in an acute shortage? No, they were empty and laying people off just like the rest of the economy.
My wife is a nurse, by the way and one brother works at the Mayo Clinic which lost $3B and laid off thousands.
They also shut off vaccines for children. Do they believe we are all gonna die because so many children didn’t get their tetanus or measles shots?
ping.
It wouldn’t be ironic back in early March when we had a great deal more uncertainty.
But now, it looks like the strategy needs to be adjusted. At this point, I would call the young back to work with their protection on.
Thank you for the post. Unreal. This whole thing has been a bizarre nightmare.
“They also shut off vaccines for children.”
Hadn’t heard that. I can only imagine the school laws about vaccines and next year’s herd of kids coming in.
Well. The Doctors offices are going to get crowded whenever they reopen, same with the dentist.
Who’s esential...?
...essential...
Not if there are conditions placed on reopening. Like self-quarantining between seeing your provider and going in for a procedure. I just cancelled one because of that. And I got the distinct impression from the person I spoke with that I am not alone.
Therein !ies the rub. It is devastating to see careers disrupted, but this "crisis" is causing hospital leadership nationwide to take hard looks at their staffing, skill mix, and supply chains. My daughter is a hospital based APRN in cardiology who is still working but just received her WARN notice despite the hospital reopening for elective services. Management figured out an associate degree nurse could adequately perform her duties at half the wage.
My hubbie has been in pain from swollen discs in his neck since October. He was ONE WEEK away from getting in to the pain doctor when the word “non-essential” came up. His appt was moved to JUNE!
Said hubbie works in HR for a hospital in DFW area - they laid off lots of nurses and other staff. He was working 14 hour days in the beginning of the shut down to determine which nurses laid off had certifications to continue working.
Everything you said is true!
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