Coronavirus Watch: How have health care workers fared during COVID?

Approaching the third year of the pandemic, America's health care workers are reporting significant levels of burnout and even anger about the complications of politics and rising incidents of abuse from patients and their families.

But three-fourths of them still say they love their jobs, an exclusive Paste BN/Ipsos Poll of doctors, nurses, paramedics, therapists and others finds. It is a show of resilience, not without some costs, among those who have been on the front lines of fighting COVID-19. 

Susan Page and I delved into the exclusive poll results and talked to health care workers to hear their thoughts on burnout, pandemic restrictions, vaccines and more. Read the full piece here.

It's Tuesday (or "Twos-day" if you're interested in today's palindrome date!), and this is Coronavirus Watch from the Paste BN Network. Here's more news to know:

• Hong Kong, struggling with its worst COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic began, will test every one of its 7.5 million people for the coronavirus three times next month, the city’s leader said Tuesday.
• Players attending the NFL's scouting combine won't have to stay in a “bubble” as originally ordered after organizers loosened regulations Monday night after getting blowback for strict COVID-19 rules issued over the weekend.
• A group of American truck drivers protesting vaccine mandates, named the People’s Convoy, has said it will begin a cross-country protest on Feb. 23 beginning in California and ending in Washington, D.C. 

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See our COVID-19 resource guide here. See total reported cases and deaths here. On vaccinations: About 76% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and about 64% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC.

– Cady Stanton, Paste BN digital editor fellow, @cady_stanton