New York City’s hospitals have become the war-zone-like epicenter of the nation’s coronavirus crisis.
A “cacophony of coughing” in packed emergency rooms. Beds squeezed in wherever there is space. Overworked, sleep-deprived doctors and nurses rationed to one face mask a day and wracked by worry about a dwindling number of ventilators.
“These are people in severe respiratory distress, needing to be intubated and needing the intensive care unit,” he said. “We knew it was coming. We saw it in Italy and other places so we were prepared for it, and now we’re seeing it.” “One of the forecasters said we were looking at a freight train coming across the country. We’re now looking at a bullet train,” he said.
Dr. Craig Spencer, who survived a bout of Ebola in 2014 and now is director of global health in emergency medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, tweeted Tuesday of a “cacophony of coughing” in the ER, saying nearly ever patient he encounters has the same symptoms, regardless of age: Cough, shortness of breath and fever.Advertisement
The city’s health department last week advised health professionals to continue working after exposure — rather than self-quarantining — unless they show symptoms.
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