“We would of course love to rest because all of us are running fevers and having body aches, but we are so short-staffed for such a high number of patients.' A doctor copes with a covid surge in Wuhan—again.
ing felt herself getting weaker as she performed chest compressions on an 81-year-old man with covid-19 whose heart had stopped beating. “One, two, one, two,” the nurse counted to herself as she tried to keep him alive. Then, suddenly, she fainted. In retrospect, this wasn’t much of a surprise. She herself was ill from the virus.
As China managed to suppress the virus until recently, doctors and nurses there have little experience of treating covid. Many are in no fit state to learn: new cases have proliferated so rapidly that many medical staff like Ding are being forced to work while infected themselves. Three of them shared their stories withDing had a fever and joint pain when she came back to work; she felt like she was dragging her legs as she walked through the entrance to the emergency department.
The dialysis room is normally a quiet place, but that day it was filled with coughs and groans of discomfort. Stretchers rolled in and out of the room carrying patients who were, at times, gasping for air. An air of panic was setting in.
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