Name: ‘People Are Dying’: Battling Coronavirus Inside a N.Y.C. Hospital | NYT News
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:43:49.000Z
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“The frustrating thing about all of this

Adverbs of degree

is it really just feels like it’s too little, too late.

Today is kind of getting worse and worse.

to store the bodies of patients who are dying.

to get a few additional ventilators or even

we could free up ventilators for patients who need them.

We probably — unless people die, I suspect we’ll

be back to needing to beg for ventilators again

Leaders in various offices, from the president

saying things like, ‘We’re going to be fine.

And from our perspective, everything is not fine.

and even just the materials that I need, physically,

On a regular day, my emergency department’s volume

Now we’re seeing 400 or more people a day.

At first, we were trying to isolate patients

with cough and fever and be more careful around them,

extra careful around all the other patients.

And then we started to realize that patients

who were coming in with no fever but abdominal pain

actually had findings on their X-rays and chest CTs

that were consistent with this coronavirus,

So someone in a car accident gets brought in

and we get a CT scan of them, and their lungs

We were seeing a lot of patients who probably had

Ten residents and also many, many of our nurses

and a few of the attending physicians got sick.

The anxiety of this situation is really overwhelming.

to get tested even if we want to, even if we have symptoms.

I need to have that N95 mask on for every patient I see.

The N95 mask I wore today is also the N95 mask

We’re always worried that we’ll be out of N95 masks.

What’s a little bit scary now is the patients

Many of the young people who are getting sick

don’t smoke, they’re healthy, they have no co-morbidities.

between the ages of 30 and 50 who you would not expect

So many people are saying it’s going to be OK,

everything’s fine, we have what we need.

And if this goes on for a month or two or three or five

like it did in China, and we’re already this strained,

I don’t really care if I get in trouble

in the emergency department and in the hospital