'I have worked the last four days, and I have cried every day.' Eileen McStay, a registered nurse at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, is on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more:
Frontline health care workers directly engaged in treating patients with COVID-19 are three times as likely to suffer insomnia and more than 50% more likely to suffer depression or anxiety, according to the results published online March 23 inDr. Roy Perlis is a psychiatrist with Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.
"I've worked for the last four days on a floor with all COVID-positive patients. It can't get more of the 'eye of the storm' for me," McStay said. "These people have no visitors. There are no visitors allowed in the hospital. People are so scared and so alone, and so are we," McStay said. Spiritual care advisors and peer support networks are up and running, reaching out to patients and staff in need. All workers have been given an app with which they can track their symptoms, so other staff can tell them whether they should worry about being infected.McStay said she walks up a big hill to work every day, and yesterday she got worried when she became short of breath on the way up.
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