Health
New Year comes to COVID ward, with hope for end to nightmare – Washington Post
While the world said goodbye — or good riddance — to a pandemic-ridden 2020, nurses and doctors fighting the virus on the front lines soldiered on even as the clock…
In one intensive care ward, all but one of a dozen beds were occupied. Medical staff calmly tended to patients lying in dimly lit rooms, dispensed medication, checked respiratory machines and filled in medical records.
This particular one (New Years Eve) is a surreal night, as was Christmas, as will be the Epiphany, as was the past Easter and all the other holidays, said Dr. Paolo Petrassi, the night shift coordinator. They are, lets say, holidays detached from what was the real world once, as we…
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