From a desk in midtown Manhattan to checking in patients inside the Javits Center: a Navy Reserve officer takes us inside his pandemic call-up
AmeriVet Securities analyst Karanjit Paul was called up from the Navy reserves to work at the Javits Center during the pandemic.Karanjit Paul, an analyst at broker-dealer AmeriVet Securities, walked Business Insider through what it was like to work inside of the makeshift hospital in Javits Center.
When the pandemic was raging in New York late March and early April, with the city's hospitals overflowing, Governor Andrew Cuomo made the decision to open the convention center to patients in what he called a "rescue mission." In his three years in the Reserve, he's worked for stints in Virginia and Maryland in different roles. Photos show the National Guard converting New York City's Javits Center into a disaster hospital for coronavirus patients
Paul's job was to keep track of patient and doctor paperwork and general logistics — "basically maintain the hospital," he says, with five other volunteers per shift. "Maintain patient flow and keep everything in order" is how he described his role. His shift was only for eight hours a day, but the amount of time to put his PPE on and take it off each shift added up.
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