'It's So Much Worse This Time,' Exhausted ICU Nurse Says Of Current COVID-19 Surge

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“I don’t know what to say that will make people listen to us, to take the basic steps such as masks and vaccination that could be our way out of this nightmare.'

“For months, as a nurse intern” last year, “I’d watched the battle-weary nurses emerge from COVID rooms, taking off their PPE like warriors stripping off armor, their faces lined from the pressure of the respirators. There was something etched in their faces ... some terrible weight that came from caring for these patients,” Kathryn Ivey wrote in anin Scientific American Thursday. “I learned how to be a nurse with death constantly at my heels.

But as the number of case of COVID began to fall this spring, “I could breathe” again, Ivey recounted. “I started to see what it was like to be a nurse in pre-COVID times and realized how many people normally survive the ICU. The things I did mattered; my actions actually saved lives ... I started to see a future that didn’t have a dark cloud looming over the horizon, a future in which my family was safe and my patients didn’t die these slow, torturous deaths.

“They got through it the first time around, they hung on, thinking it would be over at some point. Now they’re back fighting it again,” said Dr. Jessi Gold, anAll “they do now is work with COVID patients. They wonder how much longer they can take it. They talk of quitting now,” Gold told HuffPost. “Depression and anxiety are more acute, and the work is dangerous. They’re exposed to COVID constantly, then go home to their unvaccinated kids.

 

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