Busy night. Several sick patients and many of them were hypoxic from COVID. Several intubations. Imagine your mother, father, brother, or sister lifeless on a breathing machine and getting a call from ME at 4 in the morning to tell you they are on a breathing machine. 1/6

No one ever thinks COVID is going to affect them, until it eventually does. But COVID is rapidly sweeping through households in underserved communities who can't physically distance in small apartments. 2/6

4,331 new cases this morning. Patients are waiting hours for ICU beds because there are only 175 beds in Arizona. Same story nationwide. "Sorry doc, we have no room in our ICUs, Is the patient COVID or non-covid? Send the COVID test and let us know" 3/6

I saw an alert in my inbox about a positive COVID test for a patient I admitted days ago. I scrolled through the chart to see how he was doing and was prompted with, "You are entering the chart of a deceased patient" 4/6

I remember our conversation at bedside, "Doc I feel fine, I have some fevers and chills, but otherwise okay" ... "You're not hypoxic, but let's admit you for 24 hours to make sure everything is okay" I replied. He slowly decompensated over the next days and died. 5/6

I hate this virus and the fact that nothing is being done to stop its deadly spread. 2,000 people are dying a day. Think about that! /end