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The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-19-pandemic-fuels-attacks-on-health-workers-globally/2021/03/02/1a52e0d2-7b18-11eb-8c5e-32e47b42b51b_story.html
March 2, 2021
A new report by the Geneva-based Insecurity Insight and the University of California, Berkeley's Human Rights Center identified more than 1,100 threats or acts of violence against health care workers and facilities last year. Researchers found that about 400 of those attacks were related to COVID-19, many motivated by fear or frustration. "Our jobs in the emergency department and in hospitals have gotten exponentially more stressful and harder, and that's at baseline even when people are super supportive," said Rohini Haar, an emergency physician in Oakland, California, and Human Rights Center research fellow. "To do that work and to do it with commitment while being attacked or with the fear of being attacked is heartbreaking to me."
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