COVID-19 is the symptom. Chronic oppressive job conditions are the disease.
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the dysfunction of our health care systems, from dramatic racial disparities in mortality rates to the abuses of health care workers. As a health care staff working on inpatient floors during the pandemic, the medical system’s inequities have never been more clear — and they hurt the safety of both patients and health care workers.
A few years …
COVID-19 is the symptom. Chronic oppressive job conditions are the disease.

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