Over the course of the past few weeks, Doctor Dara Kass has reoriented her life so that she can put the health of the people of New York City first. Here, she explains what she is up against.
We don’t have the capacity to do a fraction of the things they are suggesting. Across the country, we’re not testing health care workers regularly and we’re not "cohorting" them like they did in China. The report recommends keeping health care workers away from their families—intra-family transmission is 80%. When you live in the same house as a health-care worker, you can be considered exposed.
Most of my friends who are living with their families have a decontamination protocol—a set of rules for how you enter the house: You get undressed at your door, take a shower. All weekend I showered. My husband and I have divided up the house into rooms that are mine and rooms that are his. We’re like an unmarried orthodox Jewish couple. There’s one chair in my bedroom that he’s allowed to sit on when I’m in the bed because its six feet away from the bed.
And the entire health care workforce is inspiring. When the Italian doctors who were on the ground took to social media, we listened to them, and we started mobilizing, even when the administration was not. We know full-well that we’re going to be standing in the path of this storm, but not for one second have we second-guessed that it’s the right place to be. We’ve moved our families, we’ve changed our schedules to be available.
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