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hlthe2b

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2. Starting with the early-on refusal to recognize COVID-19 infections were workplace-related and allow
Tue Jun 10, 2025, 01:20 PM
Jun 10

workman's compensation for these early, severe, and often fatal infections among health care staff--many who have long COVID to this day and can no longer work... Then, shortages across the board, with hospital administration refusing to address overworked staff... Then, the RW concerted effort to demonize health care workers for everything they CHOSE not to believe or the protections they refused to accept related to COVID-19... Then the escalating greed that has closed so many hospitals and caused HCWs to see patients refused more than absolute emergent care... Then the impact of extremist anti-abortion laws that have made women the ONE group who can and quite often ARE denied life-saving care, with sympathetic staff holding that guilt burden...

Yes, Noah, you are right. But you have just touched the surface...

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