More Than Half a Million Health Care Workers Quit Their Jobs in August

Anecdotally, places like &#x2F;r&#x2F;nursing are full of stories of traveling positions (out-of-state temp work) offering as much as $10k&#x2F;week for qualified personnel. If you&#x27;re already unhappy with your job and management, and pulling say $70k annually for 80-hour weeks and 36-hour shifts, that has to be tempting. Even half that rate would be worth it for a lot of people. Texas, for example, is trying to stop people from doing this in-state[0].<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nurse.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;texas-bans-nurses-from-in-state-crisis-contracts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nurse.org&#x2F;articles&#x2F;texas-bans-nurses-from-in-state-c...</a>

&gt; About 534,000 health care workers quit their jobs in August, up from about 404,000 during the same month in 2020.<p>This article would be much better with a chart of per capita monthly attrition of health care workers going back years before the pandemic, otherwise it&#x27;s hard to know how significant it actually is.

“The poll showed the exodus is primarily driven by the pandemic, insufficient pay or opportunities, and burnout, according to Morning Consult.”<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.beckershospitalreview.com&#x2F;workforce&#x2F;18-of-healthcare-workers-have-quit-jobs-during-pandemic-morning-consult.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.beckershospitalreview.com&#x2F;workforce&#x2F;18-of-health...</a>

Publications seem to be oblivious to the fact that they are read by an international audience. I was almost ready to google &quot;Newsweek&quot; to find out from which english-speaking country this is coming when I found a hint that cued me in that the article ist concerned with the situation in America, not Canada or Australia or GB or Ireland or something.

How many of those were let go because they didn&#x27;t want to be forced into getting vaccinated?