Philadelphia Inquirer (July 6)
“Interviews with doctors and nurses in the Philadelphia region revealed a sense of relief over a waning pandemic leavened by fears that the virus could surge again. They use different terms to describe what almost a year and a half of being on the front lines of treating COVID-19 has done. Moral injury. Trauma. Burnout. PTSD.” Even now, these “drained health care workers must still maintain a busy schedule as hospitals face a glut of patients who had put off health care out of fears of contracting the virus.”
Tags: Burnout, Busy, COVID-19, Doctors, Drained, Fears, Front lines, Health care workers, Interviews, Nurses, Pandemic, Philadelphia, PTSD, Relief, Surge, Trauma
USA Today (April 17)
“Nearly half of US adults have gotten at least 1 vaccine dose,” but cases are on the rise with more contagious variants. Globally, the “death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million people Saturday… more than the population of Chicago (2.7 million) and equivalent to Philadelphia and Dallas combined.”
Tags: Adults, Chicago, Contagious, Coronavirus, Death toll, Philadelphia, U.S., Vaccine, Variants
Philadelphia Inquirer (July 29)
“Philadelphia’s ban on indoor dining will continue until at least Sept. 1.” In the metropolitan region, “new daily case numbers and averages keep rising…. That means progress made in May and June in flattening the curve of infections appears to be eroding.”
Tags: Ban, Case numbers, Curve, Eroding, Flattening, Indoor dining, Infections, Metropolitan, Philadelphia, Progress, Rising
