The only statistic in the article that gives a clue how many hospitals were affected appears in the statement:
"In Montana, more than 250 nurses at Missoula's Community Medical Center have missed out on pay due to the hospital's decision to pay employees by duplicating an early December paycheck"
So in this particular company, some nurses were forced to accept their expected regular+OT pay and will have to wait a couple more weeks for any extra overtime they might be entitled to.
How many healthcare workers were affected? No more than any other industry. I couldn't find any news on the internet actually revealing how many workers in general were affected other than "up to thousands". So how many might be health care workers? Up to hundreds? So maybe 0.005% of healthcare workers have been inconvienced?
So my question is, why has NPR specifically addressed the impact to "hospitals"? Why is the impact to healthcare workers more important and news-worthy than to the impact to everybody else?
> "The outage is an unneeded administrative nightmare timed precisely as the omicron surge is hitting hospitals, Riggi said."
Ah! The outage was "timed"!!!!
The evil hackers intentionally timed the attack to threaten COVID victims!!!! My god! They're MONSTERS! attacking and murdering the weakest of us! It's outrageous!
What should be done? Is it's time to fire up the gas chambers for these inhuman hacker terrorists? Or maybe it just time to click on NPR's clickbait title?