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Over 3,000 Retired Georgia Nurses Ask To Return to Fight Pandemic

Thousands of retired Georgia nurses have asked to come back to work to help with the state’s frontline medical response amid the spreading COVID-19 outbreak, according to a report.

Richard Lamphier, president of the Georgia Nurses Association, told CNN that between 3,000 and 3,500 retired nurses in the state have asked to return to work amid a critical shortage of nursing staff.

“There were about 10,000 [nursing professionals] a day that were retiring [nationally],” Lamphier told CNN. “As of right now, with nurses coming back to the bedside from retirement and also nurses that may have worked in nonclinical roles, those nurses will be activated to come back to take care of patients as well.”

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A nurse assists a colleague don protective equipment before dealing with a patient at Madigan Army Medical Center’s enhanced CCP virus screening site Winder Clinic on Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington, on March 24, 2020. (John Wayne Liston/U.S. Army/Handout via Reuters)

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