Health
‘Off the charts’: Ireland’s contact tracers face return of sleepless nights – The Guardian
Tracers express their fears as infected people reveal multiple close contacts in multiple locations
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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