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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%.
Based on their joyful and calm demeanor, you would never know the Maccoux family faces hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical debt. Cathy and Dan Maccoux have always had health insurance and yet to care for one daughter suffering from a brain condition called hydrocephalus and another suffering from multiple sclerosis, between 2005 and 2019, Dan estimates their out of pocket costs were $192,539. Their dilemma illustrates some of the problems with the half-private, half-public healthcare system in the US that many Democratic presidential candidates have vowed to get rid of.
Junior Doctors and student nurses have walked out after negotiations failed with the government.
French hospital workers demand more resources to cope with the relentless influx of COVID-19 patients.
The DCU center, a convention center complex in Worcester, Massachusetts, is converted into a Covid-19 field hospital to take in non-emergency and an overflow of coronavirus patients. The facility has admitted 365 Covid patients in the past five weeks.
"C'est une grosse surprise et une très belle reconnaissance. Je voulais montrer qu'on peut faire une cuisine différente, qui a du goût, qui a du sens" : à 41 ans, la cheffe Claire Vallée décroche la première étoile Michelin accordée à un restaurant vegan, pour son établissement ONA (Origine Non Animale) à Arès, en Gironde. Une consécration pour ce restaurant qu'elle a monté en 2016 grâce à une campagne de financement participatif, sans prêts bancaires classiques.
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