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For Amanda Peterson, memories of the pandemic are still very much with her. “At first, it was just fear, I mean, there was so much fear, and we didn’t know what we were dealing with,” she recalled.

A retired nurse from Queens who nearly died from COVID-19 returned last week to The Mount Sinai Hospital’s cardiac intensive care unit—where she once worked—to thank the colleagues who saved her life.

Keri von Rosenberg remembers trying to make sense of what her job would be like when COVID-19 first hit in early 2020. The labor and delivery nurse at Baylor Scott & White's Lakeway hospital remembers ...

See data and personal stories showing why COVID-19 nurses working conditions need to change so they are better able to do their jobs. It’s a Tuesday afternoon and Taylor*, a 27-year-old nurse, is ...

"It's been a very humbling experience." Last July, a tearful Felicia Croft sat in her car after a long shift in the COVID-19 intensive care unit, and expressed her deep despair about watching young ...

St. Cloud Hospital nurses Amanda Shank, Nicole May and Lisa Kilgard at the launch of a collection of stories from front-line health care workers about the COVID-19 pandemic. CATHY WURZER: COVID-19, ...

COVID-19 caused staffing shortages in hospitals across the country, leading to increased workloads and burnout among healthcare professionals. The pandemic forced hospitals to adapt, with nurses ...

From Aug. 16, 2021, to April. 1, 2022, the worst stretch of the pandemic, these caregivers ushered 545 patients — many of them friends, neighbors and even family members — through the doors of the ...

ST. CLOUD — It was sometime during the fall three years ago — in some of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic before vaccines were available — when the leadership at St. Cloud Hospital chatted ...

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