You don't have to go far to find workers who are burned out, fed up and looking for a new job.

With nearly two years into the pandemic, many are dealing with COVID burnout.

Michigan Medicine officials issue plea to the public to get vaccinated as beds fill up.

At least 25% of medical employees at U-M reported burnout during the pandemic.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has put unprecedented pressure on parents, students and teachers. There are concerns about teachers getting burned out, and the affect could be felt for years. “Our teachers are working twice as hard,” Gutman said. MORE: Tracking coronavirus cases, outbreaks in Michigan schoolsNatalie Ford teaches remotely in the Berkley School District. “People aren’t going into teaching,” Gutman said.

DETROIT – Health care workers, especially those on the frontlines in the fight against coronavirus, are experiencing burnout at alarming rates. It’s a silent crisis hiding in the shadow of the pandemic and it can potentially harm patients, the doctors and nurses themselves. A recent study published in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine finds the prevalence of burnout is 40%. When he recovered, he traveled to New York to treat coronavirus patients. A plea to the public to protect themselves and others to reduce the burden on front line medical workers, at imminent risk of burning out.

DETROIT The state of the world because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has a lot of people feeling burned out. READ: COVID-19 latest information for Detroit, MichiganThe stress of dealing with coronavirus has not let up since March and its wearing many people down. Theresa Duford runs a daycare and said its hard for her to make space to worry about herself. You need to protect yourself from more than the virus, stress is a powerful force that can actually make you sick. In order to relief some of that stress, you should start by being nice to yourself.

Parents are trying to keep their children occupied and one local mother is sharing outdoor boredom busters that her family loves. Read more: Kids at HomeJeeyoung is the mother of three boys -- ages 3, 5 and 7 -- and she works from home. When it comes to keeping her boys at home occupied, she believes keeping it simple works best. Their top favorite for outdoor boredom buster is the obstacle course. She said it instantly zaps boredom and works as a great distraction.

Children can be suffering from burnout too. A routine, she said, can be helpful with burnout, but it’s also important for children to know why things are different. "But if we’re able to cope with that stress, then our children will learn how to cope with the stress, they feel our burnout.”The first step to preventing burnout is practicing self-care. That’s how we need to look at self care.”Rockwell said since children learn from their parents, it’s important to be at your best. It’s a wonderful time for us to learn important life lessons.”

How to prevent burnout for you and your childrenPublished: May 27, 2020, 6:02 pmAs adults we might be feeling weary and burned out from all of these weeks doing everything from home -- but experts say we aren’t the only ones.

An experiment titled The Self-Care Project, intended to support Detroit activists and organizers working with Detroit-based nonprofit organizations, awarded 50 applicants $500 with no stipulations. Ive noticed a pattern of exhaustion and burnout among those working on the front lines of change, Kerry Ann Rockquemore wrote. The number of applications alone shows that activists want and need self-care, the experiment found. Certainly, one could argue that the prospect of no-strings-attached money would result in applications on any topic, Rockquemore wrote. Like any pop-up project, I learned a lot from the Self-Care Project, she wrote.