Healthcare workers with long COVID are having their careers cut short due to debilitating symptoms as the industry struggles with labor shortages
A year ago, Maddy was guiding hundreds of uninsured women through cancer treatment as a healthcare worker at a major Connecticut hospital.
"These are not just nameless numbers," Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn, a Mayo Clinic occupational medicine specialist,the Minnesota House Health Finance and Policy Committee in February."These are bus drivers, laborers, physicians, nurses." After the fever receded, Maddy said she returned to the hospital part-time, working four to six hour shifts.
53-year-old Sherikay Griffith recalled a similar experience. As a registered nurse of 25 years, Griffith was in charge of testing the 4,000 residents of Valdez, Alaska for the coronavirus in the early days of the pandemic.