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COVID Nurse: 'Many of Us Have PTSD'

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   Almost 1,400 frontline health care workers in the U.S. have apparently
   died of COVID-19, according to a joint investigation by British
   newspaper, The Guardian, and Kaiser Health News. One-third of the dead
   health care workers were nurses, the study said.

   Many of the health care workers, the report said, "are struggling with
   illness, trauma and exhaustion."

   A surgical nurse told The Guardian that in the first two months of the
   coronavirus pandemic, he wrapped more people in body bags than he had
   in the previous 25 years of his career. Jim Gentile said, "Many of us
   have PTSD."

   More than 58 million people around the world have been infected with
   the coronavirus, the Johns Hopkins Resource Center reported early
   Sunday.

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