Nursing goes through boom & bust cycles. When wages start creeping up, the media is full of "OMG! Shortage of nurses!" Then as too many youngsters start nursing

Nursing goes through boom & bust cycles. When wages start creeping up, the media is full of "OMG! Shortage of nurses!" Then as too many youngsters start nursing, the job market gets flooded and nurses quit. In previous decades, nurses quit to make more money elsewhere. After COVID, nurses are just plain burned out. Medical staff got too abused by mismanagers and assaults by anti-vax people, this results in them quitting - no amount of money will keep them.