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Health workers face 'indescribable' exhaustion amid pandemic

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, roughly 60% of frontline healthcare workers said that pandemic-related stress had negatively affected their own mental health — in a poll taken before the delta variant that filled hospitals even more. For more on how hospitals are facing this now fourth surge, William Brangham is joined by Mary Mahew, the president of the Florida Hospital Association.