Commentary: 'At this rate, the concern that the health system will be overwhelmed is very real – and likely to happen fast if we stay on the path of about a 33% rise in infections per day,' a New York City doctor writes.
Raeanne Castillo with Roper St. Francis Healthcare puts on a protective mask at the hospital's North Charleston office Monday, March 16, 2020, in North Charleston, S.C.
Droplets beaded his face. Sitting on the side of the bed, speaking in halting sentences to fit in breaths, he told me he knew he'd been exposed to someone with the novel coronavirus the week before, when he travelled to a few cities in Europe. He got back to the United States just before the government prohibited incoming flights, and he thought half the people on the plane were coughing and sick.
That was the end of a week on the coronavirus service at a large metropolitan hospital. My first day on the coronavirus service, last Thursday, was kind of slow. I’d never seen the emergency room so empty. When my cousin asked how things were going, I wrote back, “Seems like the calm before the storm.
Checking in on Thursday, I learned that five patients I took care of were now in the intensive care unit requiring ventilators to breathe. Two had severe respiratory failure.
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