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Them from the unprecedented threats. in one instance, they describe someone yelling a nazi salute during a michigan school board meeting. another example cites a person being arrested for aggravated battery in illinois. healthcare workers who were once saluted are now being threatened. you hear all sorts of stories in hospitals where they're threatened when they offer a diagnosis of covid. this is some reporting in the a.p. more than a year after u.s. healthcare workers on the front lines against covid were saluted as heroes, some are being issued panic buttons in case of assault and ditching ...

>> panic buttons aren't the answer, and the secret service can't protect 90,000 school board members. we have an autocratic movement teeming with violence and the intimations of violence in this country. and it's a threat to democracy, so let's look at that domestic terrorist, that criminal who desecrated the american flag by wrapping it around his head, who committed violence in the name of right-wing extremism. what is it that he has heard? he has heard that he lives in an occupied country with an illegitimate president who lost the election, who was put into power by millions of fraudulent ...

From 2019 to 2020, patient assaults on employees more than tripled, from 40 to 123 while injuries increased from 17 to 78 at the hospital in southwest Missouri. The hospital said the pandemic is “greatly compounding the issue.”<br/><br/>

Nurses and hundreds of other staff members will soon begin wearing panic buttons at a Missouri hospital where assaults on workers tripled after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

More than 1,100 threats or violent acts against health care workers and facilities last year were reported in one study, with 400 related to COVID anger.