The pandemic has taken a toll on healthcare workers who have pulled longer shifts, risked their lives, and did it during a statewide nursing shortage.

“It is absolutely a fatiguing element to see patients in front of you when you know that there was something that that person could have done to avoid that situation. That is hard to face,” said Dr. Cameron Wolfe with Duke Health.

“Unvaccinated people are driving this resurgence and getting themselves and other people sick,” NC Governor Roy Cooper said.