Volunteer EMT corps: 'Nothing compares' to what they're seeing in New Jersey town

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The mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey, has called the town 'ground zero' for infections in the state.

Michigan has run out of personal protective equipment and a Louisiana parish has seen death rates more than double that of New York City.are constantly answering potential and confirmed COVID-19 calls, sometimes wearing mechanics overalls to protect themselves from being exposed.

On Monday, EMTs responded to an elderly woman with a suspected case of COVID-19 who died before they arrived; a man in his 70s with a high fever and cough whose family said he'd tested positive for the virus but had been sent home; and two more older men who were taken to the hospital with fevers., called the town"ground zero" for the infections in the state.

The Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps in New Jersey, which has 120 active members, is now down to 40-50, Eric Orgen told ABC News.From suiting up in full personal protective equipment, commonly known as PPE, to decontaminating their ambulances after a call, members of the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulatory Corps said they treated every emergency 911 call as a potential COVID-19 case.

Capt. Jacob Finkelstein of the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps in New Jersey said the group had never seen anything like the COVID-19 pandemic.Orgen said that some of the volunteer EMTs had even tested positive for coronavirus after being exposed while responding to calls.

 

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They ALL knew in December about this. Jan they knew about community transmission bc China told them according to AZAR. This got SO out of hand bc of the deceit on what it truly is. This is a BEAST virus that is capable of spreading non-detected & causing Respiratory Syndrome/SARS

We have introduced the Coronom to la PLANETI confusion, and in fact another, unknown to humanity, is destroying your lives around the world

You mean 'year' to come. Donald likes to move the furniture around.

That's cause mfs dont stay home

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