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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Now at the three-year mark, the US healthcare workforce is still trying to recover and labor shortages are stressing clinicians and hospitals. MD Analytics surveyed 50 primary care physicians and 109 specialists about the effect of the COVID crisis on staff shortages, as well as their attitudes about support from pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n

In the past year alone, four-fifths of physicians (80% PCPs and 78% Specialists) say they have been impacted by staff shortages, and almost all (98% of PCPs and 87% of Specialists) find the situation worse compared to pre-pandemic. Hospitals (both Teaching and Non-Teaching) are hit the hardest compared to other settings, as well as those in the South relative to other regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":6921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,17,19],"tags":[],"country-icon":[45,44],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-survey-data","category-survey-data-usa","category-topical-data","category-topical-data-usa","country-icon-canada","country-icon-united-states"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPatient care suffers due to staff shortages MD Analytics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As the US healthcare system recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, staff shortages are causing strain. 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