Sense of guilt and being haunted by patients’ cries: Riverside nurse on long fight against COVID
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Erin McIntosh, a rapid response nurse at Riverside Community Hospital, remembers how fearful her patients looked when they realized they’d have to be intubated. “Those looks and those cries, they haunt me. I think about them often. It’s been hard to move on,” she says.
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The coronavirus pandemic made 2020 one of the darkest years for a lot of people. COVID-19 swept the globe, upending life as we knew it and killing millions. Hospitals were pushed to the breaking point.