This isn’t only a crisis of a virus; this is a crisis of healthcare access for all of us.
fleeing in advance of Trump’s European travel ban, and there was no doubt the virus would spread out from there.
By the time he was recovering in the ICU, the hospital adopted a “designated visitor” policy. Grateful to have packed my bag, I moved in, anticipating that if I left his room I might not be allowed to go back in again. By the time he was moved out of the ICU and into the neurological ward, plastic tents were being erected on the street outside, for testing patients.We Skyped the children when we could. Doctors warned us they wanted to send him home without rehab. I argued back.
I was permitted to stay in order to reduce the number of people who had to enter. I wore a mask and stood on the inside of the door while orthotists and nurses and doctors handed me whatever he needed through a crack. On that day the American death toll reached 5,794. The children were two days into their new e-learning program, and I hadn’t had a chance to help, to hug them, to see them in person for two and a half weeks. They were at our home with their grandparents, under strict quarantine orders. None of them were sick, none showing symptoms. I knew they were safe.
When we finally got the word it would be safe enough for him to go home soon, 12,064 Americans had died of COVID-19. But the world from doctors and nurses in the hallway tells a different story. They talk about patients arriving in ambulances, suffering COVID-19 symptoms, only to be declared dead on arrival without testing.
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