COMMENT | Like a kid seeing Santa Claus – a frontliner reflects on getting vaccinated
Modified30 Dec 2020, 2:33 am
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COMMENT | I still remember the day I got the email that said “Sankaran, orientation in the Ricu tomorrow at 7am.”
“There we go,” I told my husband, “Covid-19 ICU orientation begins tomorrow.”
“Well,” he said. “We knew it was coming. Be careful. Protect yourself. Never let down your guard. You need to think like a soldier going into a warzone.”
“I know,” I replied. “Except this time the enemy is invisible.”
I am an anesthesiologist in the USA. In early March I was working at a large University Hospital in the Midwest. All elective surgeries were cancelled, and we were being redeployed to areas that needed our expertise. Covid-19 was exploding in the communities around us, especially in the surrounding cities.