California COVID-19 surge leaves hospital nurses frustrated over staffing shortages
The state's nurses union urges Congress to pass President Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan.
, Associate Editor
Roughly a year into the pandemic, healthcare workers across the country are taking care of record numbers of COVID-19 patients, and many are doing so without access to optimal personal protective equipment, testing, safe staffing levels and other infection control policies.
In California, which has surpassed three million cases, nurses are facing an especially daunting task of caring for the more than 20,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients amid dwindling intensive care unit capacities, according to state COVID-19 data.