Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, February 8th. I'm Margaret

Pollyv in for Nila Boudou. Here's what you need to know today. President Biden's

plan to reshape migrant attention. Plus, why go fun me isn't snared in a free

speech fight. But first, how to fix the healthcare worker shortage is today's

one big thing.

Nearly one in five healthcare workers quit their job since the start of the

pandemic, according to a poll in recent months by morning consult. So what's

being done to keep healthcare workers on the job? To answer that question, we

called on Dr. Vanita Aurora. She's the dean of medical education at the

University of Chicago School of Medicine. Dr. Aurora, I want to start with that

statistic. How big a problem is this? I think everybody is incredibly focused

on the pandemic and the surge and how the pandemic ends. But I think one of the

biggest challenges that people do not anticipate is that the pandemic will

eventually end. But we are still going to have this epidemic of healthcare

workforce shortage. It's a really huge problem that we have people that are

fleeing the front line right now. Do you see the answer primarily in figuring

out how to keep people who are already in the field in their jobs? Or is it more

about getting new healthcare workers into the pipeline faster?

That's a great question. And it's going to be a bit of both. I think the

challenge right now is that we are hemorrhaging healthcare workers and we need

to stop the bleed immediately and keep people in their jobs. You know, I

actually work at a medical school. And there's just no way that we're going

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