Nurses who work for clinics that are currently closed - think plastic surgeons, gastroenterologists, even orthopedists, etc. People are not coming in for office visits and elective procedures or surgeries and not every medical office can run on virtual visits. (Even though mine largely can, I'm only seeing 1/3 of my normal patients and not quite making enough to keep my staff paid, much less pay myself - if that PPP loan doesn't come through and things don't pick up soon, I could have to lay off my medical assistants too.). In our city, Covid cases have been well controlled, so there's not that big an increased demand for acute care nurses - and it's probably all been offset by the lack of need for post-op care nurses, since many surgeries are elective and have been postponed..Many doctor's practices have been badly hurt by this too.
