In the three weeks since New Jersey’s first patient was diagnosed on March 4, the virus has caused 81 deaths statewide.
Van Dyk speaks of people: People with biographies of love and heartache, hope and disappointment, quirks and bad habits. People who now lie still and silent amid the rapid footfalls and controlled chaos of the ICU.“Family interaction is part of our patient care,” she said of work in the intensive care unit. Families bring love and comfort and things that can’t be delivered through an intravenous line.
Her voice is calm as she describes these scenes that wrench her heart. “You know how when you’re a mom or dad, you don’t want to cry or lose control in front of your kids?” she says. “That’s how it is.” Holy Name had 100 patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 on Wednesday, 25 of them on ventilators. The numbers rise each day. The surge is just starting. State Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli predicted Wednesday that the peak in northern New Jersey will come shortly after New York’s, “in 21 to 60 days.”
And there is the knowledge that things almost certainly will get worse. “We’re scared, too,” she admits.
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