Links: Moral injury, and ongoing pandemic info

[sonia]

Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions by Elizabeth Svoboda published Sep 19, 2022 in Scientific American. If I were still writing articles, I would write one about this. Great article about the moral injuries of working in healthcare and being unable to provide good care.

Moral injury treatments are a needed safety valve for people battling guilt and ethical vertigo. Even so, as old hands on the front lines note, nudging the morally injured toward self-repair goes only so far. Therapy can help you move on from past choices, but unless your employer hires more staff or supplies more resources, chances are you’ll have to keep making decisions that violate your ethics, compounding your trauma. A lot of problems that cause moral injury “require systemic solutions on a much broader level,” says Andrews, the California public defender.

Relatedly, COVID-19 Update for July 2023: Risks Are Low But Rising, and Too Many Are Ignoring Longer-Term Risks by Augie Ray. Lots of good info, including a link to Walgreens Covid dashboard, which I didn't know about.

We are currently seeing a rise in infections from a low base, as evidenced by COVID in wastewater. The US CDC reports COVID is wastewater is rising at its fastest rate of 2023. And the Walgreens COVID dashboard shows the positive rate has increased almost 50% in the past month.

via dewline

Additional Covid dashboards from comments (thank you!)
NY Times hospital zone map (paywalled)
WasteWaterScan, drills down to county level

Comments

[soniasulaiman]

That quote is quite a gut punch.

[sonia]

Yeah, and the part at the end is attributed to the California public defender!