Nearly half of U.S. health care workers – 46 percent of those surveyed – said they often felt burned out in 2022, the CDC report found, marking an increase of 14 percentage points since 2018.

To try to offset the pressures health care workers face, President Joe Biden signed the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act in March 2022, the first federal law that authorizes ...

Compared with other groups surveyed, health care workers reported a substantial jump in poor mental health days in the month prior, from 3.3 in 2018 to 4.5 in 2022.

Health care workers who said their organizations did not have sufficient staff also had 2.73 times the odds of reporting burnout compared to those not dealing with shortages.

Fewer than five health care workers died of COVID in early June of 2021. But during the first week of August 2021, the number shot up to 70 and a week later it was 85.

A new CDC report finds a rise in threats and verbal abuse aimed at health care workers since the start of the pandemic. The harassment is linked to high levels of anxiety, depression and burnout.