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Whistleblower nurse who spoke out about Littleton nursing home dies of COVID-19title
Source: WCVB
LITTLETON, Mass. — A nurse at a Littleton nursing home who spoke out about the conditions at the facility, which has been accused of negligence during the coronavirus outbreak, has died of COVID-19, NewsCenter 5 has learned.
Maria Krier worked at Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley until she got sick last month. She died Friday, just days after saying she felt management had no experience with infectious disease, and that contributed to the spread of the virus.[...]
Of the 204 employees who work at the facility, 75 are out sick. Fourteen employees have tested positive for coronavirus and another 17 are out with doctor's orders, the company said.
Littleton officials have accused Life Care of failing to cooperate with health agents.
Read more: https://www.wcvb.com/article/liife-care-center-of-nashoba-valley-nurse-dies-of-covid/32115540#
The situation for healthcare workers was dire even before the global pandemic escalated:
The year 2020 started with American physicians, nurses, and the whole healthcare workforce dispirited, in a deep state of burnout, with the worst rates of clinical depression and suicides that have been recorded. Indeed, this was not confined to the United States; a global epidemic of burnout had been diagnosed. But things were about to get considerably worse for the healthcare workforce.
The healthcare workers all over the world have stepped to save us when the only ones who have had their backs are other healthcare workers.
You need every resource that we can muster to help you on federal, state, local and personal level.
From all of us, all over the world, to all of you and yours, we cannot say thank you enough.
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