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It's Past Time for Companies Profiting in the Pandemic to Give Essential Workers a Raise: Brookings Institution
Despite the hardships and health risks essential workers are facing in the pandemic, many profitable companies are still not paying them a living wage. Molly Kinder of the Brookings Institution joined LX News to discuss why companies, and particularly the retailers that have thrived during the pandemic, should be offering hazard pay to workers risking their health and the health...
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What to Know About Getting a Coronavirus Vaccine in Florida
Here’s everything we know about how the vaccine is being handed out across the state, and who will be eligible to receive one as more shipments arrive
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Kate Middleton Celebrates 39th Birthday With a Tribute to Frontline Workers
For her 39th birthday, Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton shared a photo of herself wearing a mask and thanked frontline workers battling the coronavirus pandemic.
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A Health Care Worker Shares the Powerful Poem She Wrote for Her Patients and Colleagues Battling COVID-19
An occupational therapist who has been treating COVID-19 patients during the pandemic says the suffering and death she and her colleagues have witnessed over the past year have taken a a steep emotional toll. Lizzy Pesch joined LX News to share a powerful poem she wrote about the experience and the moment that inspired her put her feelings on paper.
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Local Hospitals Struggle to Keep Up With Vaccine Demand
NBC 6’s Marissa Bagg has more on what hospitals in both Broward and Miami-Dade are asking residents to do now that the vaccine is being offered to more of the general public.
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Watch: COVID-19 Nurse Gets Surprise Proposal at Work
A New Mexico COVID-19 ward nurse was told she was going to help a VIP patient in an ambulance outside. Instead, her now-fiancé was waiting to ask her a very important question.
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Politicians Are Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Before Many Frontline Workers and Not Everyone Is OK With That
As members of Congress like Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have documented themselves getting the COVID-19 vaccine, many people are wondering why politicians get to cut the line ahead of health care professionals and other frontline workers. NBCLX’s Noah Pransky discusses both sides of the debate.
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NBC 6 Survey: Health Care Workers Worry About Post-Holiday COVID-19 Surge
Health care workers in South Florida tell NBC 6 they’ve seen an increase in COVID-positive patients since Thanksgiving and warn people to be careful at Christmas gatherings.
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Health Care Workers Saw Surge in COVID Cases Following Holidays
Local health care workers say they saw an increase in COVID cases in the weeks following Thanksgiving, and they’re urging families to be careful this Christmas week. NBC 6’s Phil Prazan reports
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Broward Hospital Helps Vaccinate Frontline Workers Outside of Its System
With the arrival of a second vaccine in South Florida, more health care workers at local hospitals are set to get vaccinated. However, many health care providers who don’t work at hospitals, but are still on the frontlines, are struggling to get their shot. “I feel just so excited. A little sore arm and that’s okay,” said Palm Beach...
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Race to Vaccinate Non-Health Care Frontline Workers
As local hospitals race to vaccinate their health care workers, some are wondering about those on the front lines who are exposed and don’t work at hospitals. NBC 6’s Alyssa Hyman reports
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Meet Marvel's Newest Superheroes: COVID-19 Nurses
Nurses fighting the coronavirus pandemic are the heroes in a new Marvel comic book called “The Vitals: True Nurse Stories.” Sean Ryan, a Marvel writer, and Amanda Belcastro, a registered nurse who was featured in the comic, joined LX News to talk about why scrubs are the new capes.
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Inside a Missouri ICU as It Battles COVID-19 Surge
Mercy Hospital is in the St. Louis, Mo., area, which is in danger of running out of hospital rooms for its most critical patients.
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This Restaurant Has Delivered 4,000 Free Meals to NY Hospitals
Estuary and its sister bakery, Ebb & Flow, have funded the meals, in part, through a GoFundMe campaign.
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Frontline Workers and Their Mental Health: A South Florida Nurse Copes With Anxiety
Healthcare workers are facing grueling workloads and unprecedented stress. NBC 6’s Stephanie Bertini speaks with a South Florida nurse about her experience handling the COVID-19 pandemic.