Duke University Hospital Nurses came close to having a union not long ago. The effort should be revitalized.
The Labor Secretary of North Carolina prides herself with her name in every elevator in the state. Lately, there have been some reports that her inspections of those elevators have fallen off. Her retirement is more than welcome. Let's hope the new Labor Secretary of NC cares about people like Rose Liberto.
The issue of a depressed isn't the overriding factor to her death. Immunity can be infused like a blood transfusion if she needed Immunoglobulin G (IgG). Rose died because of an infection of SARS-CoV-2.
My sincerest sympathy to her family, friends, and colleagues. It is unjust for dedicated, valued, and needed health care professionals anywhere in the USA to become ill, let alone die because they were not cared about enough to be certain they were safe.
The USA had a nurse shortage before this pandemic. How is the country going to replace them with the worst of the winter still ahead?
By Jim Morrell
When the coronavirus (click here) outbreak first began to spike in March, Rose Liberto’s family urged her to take a break from her job as a critical care nurse at Atrium’s Cabarrus County hospital
.They knew her immune system had been compromised years ago by intensive chemo treatments.
“We were actually begging her to quit work or retire but she wanted to (go back),” her daughter Jennifer Liberto, told the Observer Friday. “She felt so morally obligated. She kind of wanted to see all this through.”
Rose Liberto, 64, died Thursday at Atrium Health Cabarrus, the hospital where she’d worked for over a decade.
Liberto, who lived in Charlotte, is the area’s first reported health care worker to die from the virus that as of Friday had killed 527 people in North Carolina and 60 in Mecklenburg County....
