id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-254981-ztdhgxno Czernin, Johannes The Impact of COVID-19 on the Health-Care Workforce: from Heroes to Zeroes? 2020-08-17 .txt text/plain 675 46 60 title: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Health-Care Workforce: from Heroes to Zeroes? Job losses will be most extensive and painful among the low-income and minority populations that also have the highest COVID-19-associated infection and mortality rates. The Memorial Sloan Kettering group concludes correctly that in the long run, ''companies cannot save their way out of a crisis.'' To succeed, health-care systems need to continue to grow and innovate to support job growth rather than contract. In the interim, because hospitals will be unable to maintain their workforce, governments need to step in to mitigate the devastating job losses in health care. The health-care economy needs a major bailout to ensure that hospitals remain solvent, that low-and medium-income workers are not losing their jobs and insurance, and that high-quality health care can be guaranteed. Hospitals and health systems face unprecedented financial pressures due to COVID-19 05-hospitals-and-health-systems-face-unprecedented-financial-pressures-due ./cache/cord-254981-ztdhgxno.txt ./txt/cord-254981-ztdhgxno.txt