Oregon Health & Science University nurses preparing to eat a meal delivered to the hospital's frontline Covid-19 healthcare workers in a break room. Photos: AP
It was the week after Christmas and coronavirus case numbers and hospitalisations were soaring in Portland, Oregon in the United States.
At Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), the state’s largest hospital, morale was low. Doctors and nurses caring for the most critically ill were burning out just when they were needed the most.
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