COVID‐19's crushing mental health toll on health care workers
Bryn Nelson, David Kaminsky
Abstract
At the height of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic in New York City, personal protective equipment was in such short supply that some nurses resorted to fashioning plastic garbage bags into protective gowns.For weeks, RNA-based tests were so scarce both in the city and elsewhere around the country that health care staff, even after showing symptoms, could not get tested.
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Personal protective equipmentTollMedicineCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Environmental healthHealth careCoronavirusMedical emergencyVirologyDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)PathologyImmunologyEconomic growthOutbreakEconomicsCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts