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Overwhelmed hospitals face nurse shortages amid US COVID-19 surge
FILE - Clinicians work on intubating a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital on August 10, 2021, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Michelle Thomas, a registered nurse and a manager of the emergency department at a Tucson, Arizona, hospital, resigned three weeks ago after hitting a wall."There was never a time that we could just kind of take a breath," Thomas said Tuesday.