While the general public is being encouraged — or ordered — to stay indoors, doctors, nurses and other health care providers can’t work from home. They are facing a new reality of their own, as hospitals and clinics prepare for an imminent influx of coronavirus patients. Yahoo News spoke to health care
Life in the United States and around the world has effectively been put on hold as “social distancing” becomes essential to curtailing the spread of the coronavirus, which, as of Friday morning, had infected 14,250 people and killed 205 in the U.S., according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. Millions are working from home or are out of work entirely, while schools in much of the country are closed.
Yahoo News spoke to a medical resident at Mount Sinai, a leading medical center and teaching hospital, who also works at a community-based hospital in Queens on the weekends. She described a stark contrast between how the two hospitals have responded. “We’re so desensitized to a lot of things,” she said. “When it first started, I was kind of unfazed by it.”Like most of the general public, this resident said that she and her colleagues are only being tested for coronavirus if they become sick, and already a couple of residents have had to self-quarantine after coming down with symptoms.
This resident, who asked that her name not be used because she’s not authorized to speak to the press, works on the hospital’s medical floor treating anyone who is admitted through the emergency room, including those suspected of the coronavirus. Examining those patients requires a uniform of personal protective equipment — including gowns, gloves and masks — that must be put on and taken off in a specific order.
While the resident said that she feels “very supported by the hospital,” the level of uncertainty that still exists about the coronavirus as it continues to spread has left her feeling “absolutely terrified.”
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