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Nursing aides plagued by PTSD after ‘nightmare’ COVID conditions, with little help

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Debra Ragoonanan, a nursing assistant at what’s now called the Massachusetts Veterans Home at Holyoke, says she has endured post-traumatic stress disorder after a COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 killed dozens at the facility, where she still reports for work. The state agreed to a $56 million settlement for veterans and their families, but caretakers have gotten little assistance as they grapple with the fallout. (Amy Maxmen/KFF Health News/TNS)
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COVID killed more than 3,600 U.S. health care workers in the first year of the pandemic. It left many more with physical and mental illnesses — and a gutting sense of abandonment.

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