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Coping with the supply chain shortage, seen at grocery stores, car dealerships and more, has become a part of life in the pandemic. And even though we’re approaching our third calendar year with COVID, the 2021 shortages are showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, this Thanksgiving and holiday season is expected to be a challenging one, due to…

Nurses around the U.S. are getting burned out by the COVID-19 crisis and quitting, yet applications to nursing schools are rising, driven by what educators say are young people who see the global emergency as an opportunity and a challenge

Health care workers who were once saluted for saving lives in the COVID-19 outbreak are now being issued panic buttons and ditching their scrubs before going out in public to avoid harassment.

The labor movement is torn over vaccine requirements — much like the country as a whole — wanting to both support its political ally in Biden and protect its members against infection but also not wanting to trample their workers’ rights.

The health care heroes took the “America’s Got Talent” stage to follow up their Golden Buzzer moment with another unforgettable performance.

The surge in COVID-19 infections across the U.S. has caused a shortage of nurses and other front-line staff in virus hot spots that can no longer keep up with the flood of unvaccinated patients

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, has hired more than 100 permanent replacement nurses amid an ongoing strike.

Cassandra Alexander, a certified nurse in the Bay Area of California, spent months watching patients die from COVID-19 before the “slow accretion of sorrow” left her deep in her own crisis with PTSD. Alexander, who wrote about her trauma in a recent op-ed in HuffPost, shares her story on LX News. If you, or someone you know, is in need...

Boxer Arisa Tsubata may not have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, but she still had her moment during the Opening Ceremony on Friday: The middleweight boxer is also a nurse who cared for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, and was showcased during the ceremony’s opening sequence.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation requiring general hospitals in the state to seek input from nurses and other staff in creating staffing plans that are to include specific guidelines on how many patients each nurse is assigned

Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts will begin to hire permanent replacements for nurses who have been on strike for two months.

Nurses on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic recount the challenges of responding during a trying time.

About 700 nurses at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, went on strike Monday, protesting what they call dangerous conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic. The strike comes after negotiations between the Massachusetts Nurses Association and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, which owns the hospital, broke down. On Monday morning, hundreds could be seen picketing in front of the hospital. The striking nurses…

For the first time in a year, Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon has had zero COVID-19 patients in critical care. Shavon Albee, a nurse who manages the critical care unit, joined LX News to describe how it felt to reach that milestone after a year that tested her team in every way.

While the number of hospitalizations from coronavirus in Massachusetts has fallen, health workers are warning people not to become complacent with precautions.

Nurses fighting the coronavirus pandemic are the heroes in a new Marvel comic book called “The Vitals: True Nurse Stories.” Sean Ryan, a Marvel writer, and Amanda Belcastro, a registered nurse who was featured in the comic, joined LX News to talk about why scrubs are the new capes.

Nurses are tired and worried about the weeks ahead, but they are as dedicated as ever.

A travel nurse working in California says more people would take COVID-19 seriously if they could see the suffering and death he witnesses every day. Grover Street joined LX News to discuss the grim reality he is experiencing in Southern California, as well as his own recent diagnosis with a mild case of COVID-19.

U.S. hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are trying to lure nurses and doctors out of retirement, recruiting students and new graduates who have yet to earn their licenses and offering eye-popping salaries in a desperate effort to ease staffing shortages.

Mercy Hospital is in the St. Louis, Mo., area, which is in danger of running out of hospital rooms for its most critical patients.