‘Off the charts’: Ireland’s contact tracers face return of sleepless nights – The Guardian

In the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Irelands contact tracers often made calls to people who were very sick, with some struggling to breathe.
In a lot of cases people were suffering extreme physical distress, said Eamonn Gormley, a tracer at University College Dublin. One person collapsed on the floor and we could hear them gasping for air. You got questions like: Am I going to die? Some nights I had trouble sleeping.
Such harrowing calls are rare and hospital admissions have falle…

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