Five on Friday: Health Care Workers Need Our Support

Fri, 01/22/2021 | by MCN Admin

Time to round up five articles or resources that MCN staff shared. Here are our picks for the week.

Del shared this New York Times piece, which may be helpful when providing information to migrants who travel by car: “How to (Literally) Drive the Coronavirus Away.”

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Kaethe said: "This is a poignant article about the impact on family members of having a loved one who is a health care worker. We have read a great deal about the fear that health care workers have of bringing COVID home. This describes the range of feelings children — and others – have.” “‘Dad, Are You Going to Die?’: Bay Area COVID Health Care Workers Face Fear at Home.”

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Jillian said: “If you haven’t seen it, here is a link to a nurse singing Amazing Grace at the COVID Memorial. Just the fact that they held a memorial was momentous.”

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Claire shared the Counter’s “Farmworkers Still Don’t Get Paid for Overtime in Most Places: ‘This is the Very Definition of Structural Racism.’”

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Weekly Win: Many wins were registered this week, in proposed immigration policy (which will undoubtedly positively impact health among migrants, immigrants, and refugees); in the possibility of some essential workers, including food and farmworkers, would be shortly able to access COVID-19 vaccinations as some parts of the country move to "Phase 1B"; in the celebration of immigrants and Spanish speakers when J. Lo recited the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish at the Inauguration; a bust of Cesar Chavez now sits behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office; the appointments of strong worker health advocates in OSHA and elsewhere in the new Biden government; in one MCN staff member getting her US citizenship -- it's been a busy week. Here, we highlight one quick win you may have missed, that may be useful when communicating with patients during vaccination, shared by Ed: “Moderna Says COVID-19 Vaccine Immunity to Stay At Least a Year.”