health care workers

The 11-minute documentary focuses on COVID-19’s impact on patients, their families and the entire nursing profession

NBC 7’s Catherine Garcia heard from the documentary’s creator and the ICU nurse it features.

Although the risk is tiny, infection from the virus causing COVID-19 after receiving vaccines is possible, a report published by a team of investigators revealed Tuesday.

A North County San Diego English professor has found a way to lighten the burden on both local restaurants and hospital workers who have been inundated with patients since the pandemic started.

Even after coronavirus cases subsided in New York City, health care workers who battled the worst of the pandemic are still struggling with the mental health consequences. The New York Times interviewed NYC health care workers about their long-term emotional struggles.

A new report by the Geneva-based Insecurity Insight and the University of California, Berkeley’s Human Rights Center has identified more than 1,100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities last year

As San Diego County works on getting roughly 500,000 health care workers vaccinated for the coronavirus, Coronado is preparing to open a new vaccine site.

Coronado is preparing to open its new COVID-19 vaccine center. Learn more about it with NBC 7’s Audra Stafford’s report.

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.

Small town hospitals and health systems already faced grave challenges before COVID-19 swept the country. Today, they are cracking under the strain of this relentless pandemic. Hospitals are depleting their resources, bleeding money and still facing a losing battle to cope with the incoming wave of COVID-19 patients. The toll on frontline workers in these hospitals is even greater.

San Diego County is set to receive 28,000 doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in its initial rollout, but certain individuals will be in line first. Here’s what to expect.

The choice for TIME’s Person of the Year for 2020 is down to four candidates. The magazine has revealed its shortlist ahead of its first ever televised special, airing Thursday at 10 p.m. ET on NBC, in which TIME will reveal the recipient its editors felt most influenced the world during a tragic and turbulent year across the globe.

As major hospitals across the country struggle with a rising flood of COVID-19 patients, small-town hospitals with limited staff, equipment and resources are increasingly forced to cope without the help of those larger facilities. Dr. Shane Wilson, who works in a small Missouri hospital, joined LX News to describe their day-to-day reality.

It’s a call that’s not new but still necessary because hospitals are still ignoring the need for a stockpiled supply of Personal Protective Equipment for their staff, said a group of health care workers rallying outside Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside on Tuesday.

Two North County neighbors are teaming up to help struggling restaurant owners and those on the pandemic’s front line. Dave Friedman and Bruce Pettibone launched the website Feeding Local Heroes, a network of restaurants and healthcare facilities to benefit from business and donated meals. “We really are killing two birds with one stone in terms of helping both ends. Both...

Dave Friedman and Bruce Pettibone launched the website Feeding Local Heroes. NBC 7’s Lauren Coronado has more.

At hospitals around the country, health care workers are reckoning with the psychological toll of the fight against the coronavirus, and fears that the disease could flare anew later this year

He’s been featured in a Colgate ad, been retweeted by the California governor, and gotten worldwide recognition for the “share your smile” campaign he inspired. But this was the biggest honor yet, he says.

Every evening people across the country gather on porches and balconies and at their windows to clap in appreciation for healthcare workers. These employees work long hours in areas where they are directly exposed to the novel coronavirus.