Covid 19 coronavirus: A parallel pandemic hits health care workers - trauma and exhaustion
4 Feb, 2021 06:42 PM
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Sheetal Khedkar Rao decided she could not continue practicing medicine. After a while, the emotional burden and moral injury become too much to bear. Photo / Sebastian Hidalgo, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Andrew Jacobs
Vaccines may be on the way, but many on the front-lines are burned out. Has the government done enough to help alleviate their stress? Dr. Sheetal Khedkar Rao, 42, an internist in suburban Chicago, can t pinpoint the exact moment when she decided to hang up her stethoscope for the last time. There were the chaos and confusion of the spring, when a nationwide shortage of N95 masks forced her to examine patients with a surgical mask, the fears she might take the coronavirus home to her family and the exasperating public disregard for mask-wearing and social distancing that was amplified by the White House
Feb 1, 2021
When Juan Carlos Guerra got the call on Jan. 12 that his county would receive 300 COVID-19 vaccine doses the following day, he went straight to work.
Guerra, the top elected official in rural Jim Hogg County, Texas, got together with local school superintendent Susana Garza, who was helping him lead vaccination planning. They called hundreds of vaccine-eligible residents to schedule appointments, in stark contrast to big cities, where locals report struggling through maddening online registration processes.
Guerra, who has spent his whole life in Jim Hogg, said he knew almost everyone he called, and they trusted him.
The next day, he and his staff staged a makeshift clinic at a local pavilion normally used for livestock shows a plan they had hatched days earlier. Garza donated staff to help register patients, while a local home care company volunteered to screen everyone for fever.
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By Tina Bellon, Nick Brown and Lisa Baertlein
Jan 29 (Reuters) - When Juan Carlos Guerra got the call on Jan. 12 that his county would receive 300 COVID-19 vaccine doses the following day, he went straight to work.
Guerra, the top elected official in rural Jim Hogg County, Texas, got together with local school superintendent Susana Garza, who was helping him lead vaccination planning. They called hundreds of vaccine-eligible residents to schedule appointments, in stark contrast to big cities, where locals report struggling through maddening online registration processes.
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Where does this leave me, I recently has a foot operation and I am 78 years, I need to have someone come to my home or a drive through near by. Plus, I do not have anyone to take me to these large locations. I am left out in the cold. All the locations in my area are not taking anyone. What an I to do? Thank you, Cynthia
Steve White says:
Dr. Michael Osterholm is predicting a new epidemic worse than the first, based on his projection the UK variant will quickly rise to become predominant. Based on this, he is recommending as many people as possible get at least one shot ASAP, and the scheduled 2nd shot be delayed.