Doctors, nurses and other medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic in Italy and Spain are succumbing to the virus in ever increasing numbers.
“I have colleagues who have been waiting five days to get tested,” she said, adding that doctors and nurses who have been infected were “feeling guilty,” because they were not able to help patients during the crisis and worried about passing the virus to their families.
He added that doctors who get infected were forced to isolate themselves for three weeks, leaving their colleagues to pick up the slack and decreasing the number of people they can treat. A total of 61 medical workers have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the outbreak, according to the Italian Federation of Medical Professional Associations.
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