Project COPE An Upstate Collaborative Chronicles Moral Distress in 'Non-Essential' Healthcare Workers By Scott Morgan • Sep 11, 2020 Scott Morgan / South Carolina Public Radio The mental health crisis among healthcare workers in the pandemic is, in large part, one of moral crisis. We’ve reported on the emotional toll COVID-19 can take on frontline healthcare workers. But what about the toll it’s taking on professionals at the further reaches of the healthcare continuum?