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A health-care worker is seen wearing full personal protective equipment outside the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, B.C. on April 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

September 28, 2020

Heath-care workers lacking PPE suffer from more anxiety and depression

Peter Smith, University of Toronto

Health-care workers' access to personal protective equipment, along with appropriate infection control procedures, affected their mental health during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

August 26, 2020

Here’s the proof we need. Many more health workers than we ever thought are catching COVID-19 on the job

Alicia Dennis, University of Melbourne

Some 70-80% of health-care workers testing positive to COVID-19 in Victoria's second wave were infected at work, compared with 22% in the first wave.

August 3, 2020

PPE unmasked: why health-care workers in Australia are inadequately protected against coronavirus

Alicia Dennis, University of Melbourne and Jane L Whitelaw, University of Wollongong

When it comes to PPE, we could be better protecting our frontline health-care workers. We need to update current guidelines to reflect the latest evidence around how COVID-19 spreads.

May 18, 2020

Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own

Pippa Blackburn, Griffith University; Donna McAuliffe, Griffith University, and Lise Johns, Griffith University

Health-care professionals are tasked with a professional responsibility of responding to the health and well-being of the people for whom they care. But what about their well-being?

Nurses collect samples from a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at St. Paul’s hospital in Vancouver on April 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

May 14, 2020

Hard choices put health workers at risk of mental anguish, PTSD during coronavirus

Margaret McKinnon, McMaster University and Ruth Lanius, Western University

Moral injury happens when someone is faced with a choice that violates deep moral beliefs. Health-care workers treating COVID-19 might be forced to choose between 'wrong' and 'wronger.'

Not only have people lost jobs, they have also stopped looking for work. (Shutterstock)

May 13, 2020

Here’s how the coronavirus is affecting Canada’s labour market

Louis-Philippe Beland, Carleton University; Abel Brodeur, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Derek Mikola, Carleton University, and Taylor Wright, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

Younger, unmarried or less educated workers are feeling the brunt of the economic effects of COVID-19. The fallout may deepen already existing inequalities.

A hospital worker at a COVID-19 assessment centre for staff at Lions Gate Hospital, in North Vancouver, on March 19, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

April 6, 2020

Coronavirus weekly: as global cases pass one million, health-care workers take the strain

Patricia Nicholson, The Conversation

This fifth weekly column by our team of international health editors highlights more of the recently published articles from The Conversation’s global network.

March 11, 2020

‘The doctor will Skype you now’: telehealth may limit coronavirus spread, but there’s more we can do to protect health workers

Matt Mason, University of the Sunshine Coast and Peta-Anne Zimmerman, Griffith University

Health-care workers are our most valuable asset in an outbreak. We must protect them as best we can.

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