Virus Knocks Thousands of Health Workers Out of Action in Europe
Virus Knocks Thousands of Health Workers Out of Action in Europe
The thinning ranks of doctors and nurses, particularly in Spain, are hampering the ability to fight the epidemic, straining hospitals and raising fears that health workers are spreading the coronavirus.
MADRID — Across Western Europe, health care professionals have used the language of war to describe the struggle against the coronavirus, which has left some hospitals on the brink of collapse.
And health care workers are the soldiers on the front lines.
Out of Spain’s 40,000 confirmed coronavirus cases, 5,400 — nearly 14 percent — are medical professionals, the health ministry said on Tuesday. No other country has reported health care staff accounting for a double-digit percentage of total infections. (New York Times, 24.03.2020)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/world/europe/coronavirus-europe-covid-19.html