Health workers fear U.S. hospitals will become coronavirus hot spots

Doctors and nurses are increasingly worried they will become the spreaders of the coronavirus rather than the healers, as hospitals themselves become a hot spot for the pandemic.

That fear is already a reality in Italy, the global epicenter of the pandemic, where researchers have found hospitals overloaded by COVID-19 patients have become transmission points. Public health officials, like those at the World Health Organization, have increasingly warned that health care workers themselves could be vectors for the disease — accelerating its spread and undermining the ability of countries’ health systems to combat it.

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