Senate committee to examine spike in violence against health care workers during COVID - Gainesville Times

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Senate committee to examine spike in violence against health care workers during COVID

Coronavirus cases at Northeast Georgia Medical Center are expected to increase with the surging Omicron variant. Above, staff work in the COVID critical care unit of the Gainesville hospital Friday, March 12, 2021. - photo by Scott Rogers

03132021 COVID 6.jpg — Coronavirus cases at Northeast Georgia Medical Center are expected to increase with the surging Omicron variant. Above, staff work in the COVID critical care unit of the Gainesville hospital Friday, March 12, 2021. - photo by Scott Rogers

Screams are heard from a Northeast Georgia Health System patient room, as the patient pins a nurse against a door and pushes her head into it with his hands.