As Covid-19 continues to spread across the United States, it has become evident that the country was woefully unprepared to staff, mobilize and protect our nation’s nurses in order to meet the surge of patients presenting with a severe and contagious respiratory disease. This lack of workforce preparedness is particularly shocking in light of warnings that a new pandemic would eventually emerge and the abundance of guidance and lessons learned from other events such as the 2009-2010 H1N1 pandemic and the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak.
Why America’s Nurses Were Not Prepared for the Coronavirus Pandemic
