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While video of a forklift hoisting a body into a refrigerated trailer outside a Brooklyn hospital was being widely shared last week, inside, doctors were racing between patients — including some of their own colleagues — to keep them breathing. https://nyti.ms/2JR6ChL
. @sherifink reported this story with @victorjblue from inside a temporary ICU at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where coronavirus deaths grew fivefold in the past week.
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The previous night at the Brooklyn Hospital Center had been bad. Patient after patient had to be intubated so a ventilator could breathe for them. At one point, 3 “codes” — emergency interventions when someone is on the brink of death — happened at once.
The next day, medical residents presented their cases during the ICU's morning report in shorthand, at auctioneer-like speed. There were many patients to get through.
Over the course of a day, the doctors treated one of their own residents and the mother of a beloved colleague. They treated pregnant women, some of whom wouldn't be conscious when their babies were delivered to increase their odds of surviving to raise their children.
Some of the ICU patients are in their 80s; others in their 30s. Some have asthma or diabetes, but others seemed to have no risk factors at all.
The message from the overwhelmed staff remains the same: "Stay home. Protect yourself." https://nyti.ms/2JR6ChL
The message from the overwhelmed staff remains the same: "Stay home. Protect yourself." https://nyti.ms/2JR6ChL
