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Demand is high, but immigration limitations are slowing the process.
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Nurse delivers powerfully grim plea after watching hospital fill with COVID patients
Lacie Gooch, a COVID ICU nurse at Nebraska Medicine took to Twitter to ask people to take the pandemic seriously as cases surge.Mark Lambie via USA Today Network
As hospitals brace for the holidays amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, staffing shortages in U.S. hospitals have created a higher-than-normal demand for international nurses but rising costs and immigration delays are thwarting their efforts.