The eyes of the world are focused on India, as the country experiences a brutal second wave of the Covid pandemic, with an average of 400,000 new daily infections and 3,000 daily deaths.
Public health experts say the numbers could be five to 10 times higher, as it is impossible to know what is happening in smaller towns and villages, which suffered huge gaps in health care even before the current crisis. Hospitals have run out of beds, therapeutics, personal protective equipment, and most critically, supplies of oxygen.
âEvery encounter has started to feel like a game of Russian Roulette. Every time you go out, you feel like this this might be the time you bring the virus home,â said Kolkata-based journalist and author Sandip Roy.
A salute to Staten Island nurses heroes in our hour of desperate need
Updated on May 06, 2021;
Published on May 06, 2021
Nurse Brittany Bonfiglio in the COVID-19 Unit at Staten Island University Hospital, South in 2020. (Courtesy/Brittany Bonfiglio)
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It is May 6, and – well over a year into a global pandemic that has impacted every member of the Staten Island community – it is time to pause for National Nurses Day 2021, part of this year’s nurse appreciation week.
It is difficult to send our thoughts back to last spring, when New York City was the epicenter of an emerging global pandemic, PPE was in short supply, the hospital beds were full, and morgues were working overtime to manage those who did not survive.
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How We Live: An ICU nurse on the frontlines of COVID opts for positivity in the worst of times
By Emily Cristobal
Published: May. 5, 2021 at 1:05 PM HST|Updated: May. 5, 2021 at 11:25 AM HST
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - March 24, 2020.
It’s a date Cheryl Alega will never forget ― the day Queen’s Medical Center, where she works, admitted its first COVID patient.
“I exactly remember the date because that was the day when I had to contact the kids’ dad to make sure they weren’t home when I came home from the hospital,” she said. “I was that scared of it.”
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First Watch First Responders: Loc Culp
When Culp, nurse manager of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, saw her first COVID-19 patients, she implemented clinical changes while keeping up with the unrelenting stream of patients admitted into the MICU. Throughout the pandemic, her department has cared for the sickest COVID-19 patients while ensuring the unit was staffed properly and safely.
To incorporate these measures, Culp helped change the MICU department into high-risk and low-risk zones. As a wife and mother of three children, Loc spent long hours at the MICU overseeing the health and well-being of critically ill patients, as well as her 110-member staff.