COVID-19 Hits Some Health Care Workers With Pay Cuts Amid Layoffs

Dr. Kaarkuzhali Babu Krishnamurthy discusses the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on paycuts for hospital staff

Just three weeks ago, Dr. Kathryn Davis worried about the novel coronavirus but not about how it might impact her group of five OB-GYNs who practice at a suburban hospital outside Boston.

"In medicine, we think we're relatively immune from the economy," Davis says.
"People are always going to get sick; people are always going to need doctors."

Then two weeks ago, she watched her practice revenue drop 50% almost overnight after Massachusetts officials told doctors and hospitals to stop performing elective tests and procedures. For Davis, that meant no more nonurgent gynecological visits and screenings.

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