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2021-08-06 Economy

Arkansas hospital where HALF of nursing positions are vacant is so overwhelmed with COVID patients that it's offering $25,000 signing bonus for medics willing to take jobs

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-06 09:42|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 $25k signing bonus for the assured opportunity to be worked into the ground.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-08-06 10:34|| 2021-08-06 10:34|| Front Page Top

#2 On the other hand Moderns shares have increased 400%.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-06 13:03|| 2021-08-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Rather morbid comment now that I think about it.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-08-06 13:04|| 2021-08-06 13:04|| Front Page Top

#4 No, morbid would be: "Shares in funeral-services related stocks are skyrocketing!".

Posted by CrazyFool 2021-08-06 14:59|| 2021-08-06 14:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Require Vaccine and this is the result.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-06 15:14|| 2021-08-06 15:14|| Front Page Top

#6 I would expect pharma stocks to be up. They just produced a life-saving if somewhat untested vaccine.

As for the Arkansas hospital, seems to me they are less overwhelmed with Covid patients and more underwhelmed with nurses. Can this shortage of personnel be attributed to the nurses not wanting to get jabbed?

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-06 15:19|| 2021-08-06 15:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Arkansas cases are higher than ever, but deaths remain about one-third of the number in January.

So the Delta spreads faster, but is less deadly?

Posted by Bobby 2021-08-06 15:39|| 2021-08-06 15:39|| Front Page Top

#8 So the Delta spreads faster, but is less deadly?

Most viruses trend that way. Much more infectious, but less severe symptoms and less deadly.

They want to spread using you, not kill you.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-08-06 16:27|| 2021-08-06 16:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Anakin, what you said applies to natural viruses - are you sure delta =/= Wuhan beta?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-06 16:34|| 2021-08-06 16:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Unless they seriously fucked with the RNA (which I don't think we are knowledgeable enough yet), it should follow the same path even if "modified".

Posted by DarthVader 2021-08-06 18:15|| 2021-08-06 18:15|| Front Page Top

#11 are you sure delta =/= Wuhan beta?

Funny you should mention that. A pandemic - induced or natural - would provide an excellent opportunity for running live bio-weapons tests. "It is just a variant..."

Over in another thread...
China Plans to Dump 2 Billion Doses of Its Low-Quality Coronavirus Vaccines on the World

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-06 18:37|| 2021-08-06 18:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Spanish Flu lasted eight years. They will work this for all its worth.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-06 22:58|| 2021-08-06 22:58|| Front Page Top

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