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800 nurses from St. Mary Medical Center, in the Philadelphia area, walked out Tuesday to protest hospital understaffing. As the third wave of coronavirus cases hits the country, hospitals are reaching capacity as hospital workers continue to suffer from burnout. According to Business Insider, the US reported a record 67,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations on November 12. But the issues nurses are striking over — caring for too many patients at once, understaffed hospitals, and burnout — existed prior to the pandemic. One study in the Journal of Nursing Administration found adding 10% more nurses to hospitals can reduce the odds a patient will die by 4%.
Commuters rush to board overcrowded trains to the Paris suburbs during rush hour. The French government unveiled its pension reform plan that has triggered a crippling seven-day-old transport strike and brought hundreds of thousands of people on to the streets. IMAGES
France faces a second day of transport chaos as rail workers pursue rolling strikes, causing major disruptions for train travellers in the biggest challenge yet to President Emmanuel Macron's resolve to push through sweeping reforms. IMAGES from Bordeaux train station
"We were outraged to learn of an IDF (Israel Defense Forces, ed) strike that killed a number of civilian humanitarian workers yesterday from the World Central Kitchen," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters during a briefing at the White House. SOUNDBITE
Public sector workers in Northern Ireland rally in Belfast as tens of thousands of employees go on mass strike, with no end in sight to a protracted political crisis that has left the UK province without a devolved government for almost two years. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).