NYT: Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines

[steve2470]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/nyregion/ny-coronavirus-doctors-sick.html

The pandemic has begun to sweep through New York City’s medical ranks, and anxiety is growing among normally dispassionate medical professionals.

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Nurses at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx gathered early Saturday to protest a shortage of protective equipment, including N95 masks.Credit...Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times


A supervisor urged surgeons at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan to volunteer for the front lines because half the intensive-care staff had already been sickened by coronavirus.

“ICU is EXPLODING,” she wrote in an email.

A doctor at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan described the unnerving experience of walking daily past an intubated, critically ill colleague in her 30s, wondering who would be next.

Another doctor at a major New York City hospital described it as “a petri dish,” where more than 200 workers had fallen sick.

Two nurses in city hospitals have died.

[la-trucker]

1. This is only the beginning

unless PPE supplies are escalated on a war footing.

[ResistantAmerican17]

2. But the Dow is up 143

So spanky couldn’t care less.