A story in Mother Jones magazine examines how the Covid-19 pandemic has stressed the relationship among medical personnel, healthcare systems and staffing companies. Travel nurses were being offered unprecedented pay to work in virus hotspots; however, in some parts of the country — where the spread of the coronavirus has been less intense — many nurses have been furloughed by hospitals that had stopped elective procedures. For them, the uncertain economic outlook makes travel nursing and its lucrative pay more attractive than ever.