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About 72 percent of Americans say their life has been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a new survey from Kaiser Family Foundation, up 32 percentage points from just two weeks ago.

The University of California will not lay off career employees for reasons related to COVID-19 through at least the fiscal year ending on June 30, the university announced. 

Healthcare lost 43,000 jobs in March, with job losses primarily in ambulatory healthcare services, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health will add hundreds of temporary positions as is prepares for a surge of COVID-19 patients, according to mlive.com.

Hospital employees are among the confirmed cases of COVID-19. Here are U.S. hospitals or other healthcare sites where employees have tested positive during the pandemic.  

Some Florida hospitals are reducing hours for healthcare workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to TV station WJXT.

Minneapolis-based M Health Fairview said it expects to cut work hours for some of its staff beginning April 6, the Star Tribune reported.

As hospitals face an influx of COVID-19 patients, hospitals are ramping up their bed capacity, but they may not have enough nurses to staff them, a professor from University of California, San Francisco wrote in a Health Affairs blog.

The U.S. State Department is opening up visa processing for medical professionals from other countries.

In the last week or two, hospital and health systems nurses have protested their lack of access to personal protective equipment as they care for COVID-19 patients.