Nurses are wearing garbage bags. Doctors are wearing ski masks. This is 21st century health care in the wealthiest country on Earth.
— Kay, a nurse at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, describing her protective clothing A calm has befallen New York City’s empty streets. Inside the city’s hospitals, however, there are scenes of organized chaos.
Kay, a nurse at The Brooklyn Hospital who did not want to give her last name for fear of reprisals from relatives of patients who are not allowed to visit their loved ones, told CBS reporter David Begnaud, who was covered in a hazmat decontamination suit and large face shield. “It’s like something out of the Twilight Zone. I don’t think any of us going through it will ever be the same.”
“We can confirm that a number of staff members working in our COVID-19 positive areas have tested positive for the coronavirus,” a spokesman for the London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust told the paper. “This is unfortunate but not unexpected, as it corresponds with the experience of health-care workers across the world.”
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