In the summer, when the coronavirus surged across the Sun Beltin Florida, Texas, ArizonaNazem's company sent clinicians to affected states. But hospitals elsewhere didn't feel the need to bolster COVID-19 staffing. "Hospitals were more experienced by then," Nazem said. "They weren't over-ordering." The composition of new job requests also shifted. Many hospitals were staffing not for coronavirus wards but to help in operating rooms and procedural suites that had postponed cases and were now running overtime to work through huge backlogs of colonoscopies and knee replacements. "These specialties were the worst hit in the spring," Nazem said. "They were among the hottest in the summer