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Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week.Much attention has focused on the plight of healthcare workers in recent weeks, and new data show the coronavirus pandemic continuesThe California Department of Public Health says more than 1,600 such workers are now infected
Less known are the stories of many others who keep the healthcare system running, such as so-called “nonclinical hospital staffers” —One of them is 30-year-old Andre Ross, who works at Southern California Hospital at Hollywood, as described by Times staff writer Hailey Branson-Potts. Andre Ross, 30, is a floor-care specialist at Southern California Hospital at Hollywood. He disinfects the floors of patient rooms, including some where possible COVID-19 victims stayed.
According to an emergency room doctor at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, the minimum-wage support staff faces many of the risks that medical professionals do, though “they didn’t sign up for it the way nurses and doctors did.”Hospital workers feel like ‘second-class citizens’ in coronavirus battle: ‘They’re terrified’Adding to the anxiety, for many, is the potential loss of their livelihood. With hospitals curtailing elective procedures, patients are fewer and money is being lost.
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