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More than 400 nurses at Backus Hospital went on strike Tuesday, two days after the hospital and the union representing the nurses failed to reach a new contract agreement during the coronavirus pandemic. The Backus Federation of Nurses, under AFT Connecticut, launched the strike Tuesday morning with a rally outside the hospital. “Nurses do not take the decision to strike…

A Michigan nursing assistant contracted coronavirus from a patient and unknowingly spread it to her family before realizing she was sick. After her husband suffered serious complications, she’s now on mission to save his life by donating her kidney.

A medical team at a southwestern Louisiana hospital worked through the night to care for 19 tiny babies as Hurricane Laura slammed the region

As the first wave of coronavirus cases peaked in the Northeast U.S. this spring, eight healthcare workers from New York City and across the country shared their intimate experiences fighting the virus — through exhaustion, grief and fear.

Jordan Kudlak works as a nurse in a Covid-19 unit in South Carolina and has seen firsthand how coronavirus can be serious—or fatal—for both the old and young. And now that she has contracted the virus herself, she has personally experienced how easy the virus is to catch, even if you take every precaution.

As COVID-19 has infected more than 1 million Americans, nurses working on the front lines with little protective support have made the gut-wrenching decision to step away from their jobs, saying that they were ill-equipped and unable to fight the disease and that they feared for not only their own safety but also that of their families.

Some hospitals are opening food pantries or makeshift grocery stores inside their facilities to help staff who don’t have time, don’t want to or can’t afford to go to a grocery store during the coronavirus pandemic.

Nurse Mike Gulick was meticulous about not bringing the novel coronavirus home to his wife and their 2-year-old daughter. He’d stop at a hotel after work just to take a shower. He’d wash his clothes in Lysol disinfectant. They did a tremendous amount of handwashing.

Maeleigh Soper, a travel nurse based at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, sat and cried with one of her young patients last month.

Countless doctors and nurses who face an increased risk of exposure to the coronavirus are moving away from their families to protect them

With capacity stretched thin, U.S. hospitals are rushing to find beds for a coming flood of patients, opening older closed hospitals, turning single rooms into doubles and re-purposing other medical buildings. At the same time, medical professionals in New York City are warning of the risks they are facing on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic in the United...