Soaring Costs of Nurses During Covid-19 Pandemic at Center of Lawsuits

April 9, 2021

(Wall Street Journal) – Healthcare labor was one of many markets to see prices jump last year, as the pandemic created global supply disruptions or shortages for everything from crops to key ingredients in hand sanitizer to protective masks worn by hospital staff. Across the travel-nurse industry—an estimated $6 billion market in 2019, according to Staffing Industry Analysts—rates shot up as Covid-19 surged, according to researchers and hospital and government officials who scrambled to find more staff.