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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Burned-Out Nurses Reach Their Breaking Point

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

iHeartPodcasts and Paramount Podcasts

Comedy, Daily News, News

4.413.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

A growing number of nurses in the U.S. have become overwhelmed and fed up by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, leading to staffing shortages in intensive care units.

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:03.0

Now!

0:05.0

The coronavirus pandemic, it's the second war America is losing in 2021.

0:10.0

This pandemic has been making life really hard on a lot of people.

0:13.0

Restaurant owners, students, horses who just have to get used to being full of worms now.

0:19.0

But perhaps nobody has been hit harder than nurses.

0:22.0

I mean, you all remember early in the pandemic, whenever 7pm rolled around,

0:26.0

we all stopped what we were doing. We would go out to our windows, and we would clap for the nurses.

0:32.0

I mean, I did it every night, unless I was in the middle of a really good show or something,

0:36.0

like Tiger King.

0:37.0

Whoa, you guys remember Tiger King? Oh man, damn, that got us through some of the tough times.

0:41.0

Yeah, give it up for Tiger King actually, Tiger King maybe, I love it.

0:44.0

But the point is, we all recognized the heroic sacrifices that healthcare workers were making during the pandemic.

0:50.0

And then at some point, we all stopped clapping.

0:53.0

But nurses never stopped sacrificing.

0:56.0

And right now, things are as bad as ever.

0:59.0

A grim picture as the Delta variant grips the nation, hospitals across the country overwhelmed by the unvaccinated.

1:06.0

Right now, 97% of the people in the hospital with COVID and nearly all the COVID deaths being reported are among the unvaccinated.

1:14.0

Exhaustion turning into outright anger for some healthcare workers treating unvaccinated COVID patients.

1:22.0

We're frustrated or aggravated. This could have been prevented.

1:25.0

We could have avoided this whole wave if more people in our country had gone and just gotten two shots.

1:33.0

When they're all these people who are dying who didn't get vaccinated are wishing they got the vaccination.

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