While some travel nurses receive lucrative paychecks to work with COVID-19 patients, those in other departments are out of work as contracts for cancelled

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• Travel nurses in the US who are not working on COVID-19 are seeing their contracts canceled and are being left without work in the midst of the pandemic. 
• The contract cancellations come as many hospitals are reducing or eliminating elective procedures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. 
• Some hospitals hired additional workers anticipating a larger number of coronavirus cases than the number they ended up treating.
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While the coronavirus pandemic has created a need for more nurses to head to the frontlines to handle the outbreak across the US, it has also left some travel nurses without a job.

The nature of the travel nurse industry coupled with the shift in hospital-treatment to address the coronavirus outbreak across the US means some medical workers are now joining the ranks of the unemployed during a pandemic.

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