
Hospitals run low on nurses as they get swamped with COVID
By TERRY SPENCER, JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #COVID-19 The rapidly escalating 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 and are losing workers to burnout and lucrative out-of-state temporary gigs. Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana all have more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic, and nursing staff is being stretched thin. In Florida, virus cases have filled so many hospital beds that ambulance…