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You donât want to end up here. The odds arenât good.
This is the intensive care unit at Windsor Regional Hospitalâs Metropolitan campus, and these are critically ill COVID-19 patients.
One-hundred-and-eighteen COVID patients have died at the hospital, most of them since case numbers began surging in November.
âItâs gruelling when you see this, how sad it is,â said critical care physician Dr. Natalie Malus, medical director of the ICU. âItâs a lot to take in over and over and over again. We deal with death a lot. But it feels like weâre seeing so much more of it, and thatâs really difficult.â
WINDSOR, ONT. Frustrated by naysayers and anti-mask protestors, executives at Windsor Regional Hospital asked local media to come into the ICU for a brief, physically distant tour. “It’s just surreal and unreal,” says Jen Hurst a registered nurse, with seven years’ experience, working on 4 North inside the Met Campus. “I wish people in the community could literally walk in my shoes and see what I see,” she says. Hurst says the physical changes to the floor, including venting throughout and rooms divided by sealed tarps are actually a comfort because she knows it’s for all their safety.