Readit News"they are more transmissible, more likely to evade immunity"
Intrinsic severity of the virus doesn't change the fact it is the most transmissible virus we have ever seen in the world.
Even if it is intrinsically less severe than previous variants, because we are allowing it to spread to EVERYONE in the world we are seeing a much worse impact. Did you miss that in the US alone we've had over 160k deaths from COVID-19 just in the last 6 months of this year? No other virus has had this level of death in the same timeframe.
It's not. Measles, for example, is more transmissible.
> No other virus has had this level of death in the same timeframe.
Not true. Spanish Flu, for example, killed more both in raw numbers and proportionally in a similar time frame.
Here's a helpful infographic: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadli...
I grew up in a neighborhood full of beautiful mature Ash trees. In the past 20 years, almost all of them have died and been cut down due to the emerald ash borer.
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/nursing-fac...
Compensation helps, but having to do much more work with less people increases burnout regardless of how much you're being paid.
Based off what I read there, I don't think reducing burden on nurses to prevent burnout at any cost is the right response here.
The article makes clear there are two pipelines here:
Nursing student applicants -> Nursing students -> Nurses, and Nurses -> Nursing faculty
There are more qualified applicants than can be accepted as students due in part to shortages in the faculty, according to the article. So why is there a shortage of faculty? There are several items noted in the article, but I'll point out the one I think is relevant to our conversation.
> the pandemic has forced much of nursing education to an online, virtual format ... An overnight switch to virtual learning has not been seamless or easy on students or faculty ... The risk of burnout in these prolonged conditions is high—especially for faculty members who have young children or who are caretakers in the home.
So, this article is arguing nursing faculty is burning out because teaching virtually is too taxing. I don't think this article supports the idea that a nursing shortage will result due to overtaxed nurses in hospitals.
And it gets worse. My daughter is in pre-med. Apparently people are dropping out like flies and not just because of the course load. They're watching how medical professionals are being treated and saying screw it! This should concern us all because we've had a marked uptick of medical professionals retiring/resigning since the pandemic started and now the pipeline is thinning out.
We're walking headlong into a disaster and nobody seems to care. And that's not even dealing with the problem of Global Climate Change which, guess what? Still hasn't gone away and there doesn't seem to be much interest in caring about that either, not that there ever was.
You can see what our child-bearing aged children think of all this - they're not having kids. I don't think this is a short-term aberration. We're a population literally in decline.
From what I know, the limits on number of doctors licensed each year are tightly controlled. If students drop out, there are countless others who will be willing to take their place.