Here’s How The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Affected Healthcare Professionals

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, hospital workers around the world are responsible for keeping national healthcare systems afloat amid the most serious challenge to public health in many lifetimes. With heroic effort, in most areas of the U.S., healthcare professionals have succeeded in preventing the worst-case scenario of the pandemic from occurring so far.

Nonetheless, because of their central role in the pandemic response, healthcare workers have been negatively affected by the pandemic in profound ways. Between endless overwork and severe emotional trauma, healthcare workers face a harder struggle today than perhaps ever before in their profession. Here's what you should know about the pandemic, healthcare workers, and how we can support them.

Image Source: Getty Images

Continue reading

Source Fool.com