“I can’t really describe the mood,” a hospital photographer said. “People are focused. They’re working. They’re tired. But, you know, they’re dedicated.”
Twelve doctors have contracted the virus, Griffin said. The hospital’s CEO, Michael Maron, was also sickened by it. Maron, who spent a week at home fighting off a bad case of fatigue, returned to work Saturday — more evidence that the virus doesn’t always win.ICU nurse Arlene Van Dyk, right, with her colleagues at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N. J., on March 24, 2020.
“I can’t really describe the mood,” he added. “People are focused. They’re working. They’re tired. But, you know, they’re dedicated.” In the meantime, the hospital consolidated its COVID-19 patients on ventilators, moving them April 2 from the ICU to a new unit with 36 beds called “the shell,” Van Dyk said. The idea was to centralize the patients in a new structure — it was built in less than a week — to make it easier for her and other staff to tend to them, she said.“It was exhausting,” she said. “Everybody’s just exhausted.”
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