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Matthew Rozsa

RARE PHOTOS: Working nurses to death | Vintage Vibes

nurse, reacts to tiredness early on April 11, 2020, during her night shift in the intensive care unit exclusively for COVID-19 patients at the Ixelles Hospital in Brussels, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. ARIS OIKONOMOU/AFP via Getty Images

The nurse was twisting her hair and pulling it out.

She had three patients, June Brown recalled, and was running back and forth so she could give the best possible care to each one of them. This patient load would have been unimaginable except in the most extreme crises prior to the COVID-19 pandemic; they have become all too common since March 2020.

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