‘Somebody’s Got to Save Us, While We’re Saving Everybody Else’

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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As hospitals in the United States battled another coronavirus wave in the past few months, another crisis was steadily growing more acute: a shortage of nurses. We speak to some of the “forgotten warriors” of the nursing profession, at Pascagoula Hospital in Mississippi, to find out what life is like on the front line of the pandemic. Guest: Andrew Jacobs, a global health reporter for The New York Times.

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0:28.4	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi.
0:34.5	This is The Daily.
0:38.5	Today, hospitals are beginning to emerge from yet another wave of coronavirus cases.
0:51.6	People are getting tired.
0:52.6	This is a long marathon that we are running right now.
0:56.8	For months, hospital leaders around the country have been increasingly concerned about another
1:02.8	problem.
1:03.8	We are losing nurses weekly.
1:05.5	We've seen some who've just decided I can't do this anymore.
1:09.6	A shortage of nurses.
1:11.6	I just feel very helpless.
1:13.2	We're working so hard to continue to try to find more personnel.
1:16.5	We're in a very critical state right now.
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