Author: Dorron Blumberg

In response to the expanding population of Floridians who are or are expected to be infected with COVID-19, on Friday, 3/21, Governor Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 20-72, “Non-essential Elective Medical Procedures”. The Governor previously issued Executive Order 20-52, wherein he determined COVID-19 has created a Public Health Emergency in Florida. 

Healthcare workers are today’s soldiers against Covid-19. They are self-sacrificing, hardworking, usually over extended, and have much to be concerned about including their families. When dealing with Covid-19, many healthcare workers are wondering if they have the right to not work, much like most of society. 

On Feb. 24, the World Health Organization warned that the coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak could turn into a pandemic, days after reports surfaced that the virus had spread rapidly in a northern Italy town.

Everything changed in the summer of 2019 when I had a candid conversation with Claudine Raymond, my colleague at VITAS Healthcare. One day in the cafeteria of the hospital where we both work as hospice admission nurses, she shared about her husband’s kidney disease, his deteriorating health and the stress it was causing on the entire family