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The Conversation reports that healthcare workers will have to face 'moral injury' for making difficult decisions such as moving a patient off the ventilator or refusing an ICU bed due to limited resources. [8] COVID-19 has forced healthcare workers to make many difficult ethical decisions.
One of the limited primary resources has become trained health care workers, not just ventilators or physical space. Many hospitals had fewer nurses, respiratory therapists, and doctors than early in 2021 during a surge. [17] Likewise, New Mexico was close to declaring crisis standards of care after it had to impose waiting lists for its ICU. [17]
As of July 2020, there were 9000 COVID-19 deaths in Canadian long-term care homes. Of those, more than 5600 were in Quebec, and nearly 2800 were in Ontario. British Columbia had less than 200 deaths in LTC facilities. [3] As of mid-April 2020, nearly half of the COVID-19 deaths in Canada were at long-term care facilities. [4]
Though it doesn’t get much press, there’s a looming crisis: The world does not have enough health care workers, and demand for them is growing faster than supply. The World Health Organization ...
The list contains people working in frontline roles where they were likely to have come into contact with patients shortly before their deaths.
Since the restrictions due to COVID-19 are limiting the family members allowed to come into the hospitals, health care workers have found ways to still support the patients using the source of technology. Web-based video conferencing using FaceTime and Skype, along with camera systems have shown benefits in the hospital settings. [16]
The true COVID-19 death toll in the United States would therefore be higher than official reports, as modeled by a paper published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. [3] One way to estimate COVID-19 deaths that includes unconfirmed cases is to use the excess mortality , which is the overall number of deaths that exceed what would ...
President Joe Biden's administration on Friday proposed setting federal minimum staffing levels for nursing homes, a move aimed at addressing longtime complaints about abuse and neglect in the ...