'It's like walking into Chernobyl without any gear,' one doctor in New York City says about her emergency room. At her hospital, 90% of patients have COVID-19. But health care workers only get one N95 mask every five days.
"It is a long six hours to be in all that gear," said Amanda Adams, a travel nurse who works at an ER in the New York City suburbs."I try to put aside my emotions and cheer up the patients. Meanwhile, I am thinking which one is going to give it to me and am I going to get sick?"
"That also increases the fear. That it's hitting young people," said Roy Akarakian, an ER resident at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit."I'm worried and afraid about the overall situation. This is something we've never seen before." While in isolation and recovering, he was required to use his own vacation and sick time. After learning he had COVID-19, he says his employer"tried to pin those results on something outside the hospital." Probably, Edward said, because the hospital only provides fully paid emergency administrative leave if you can prove you caught it on the job.
"When I would tell people, they would physically back away from me, they would question whether I should be at work," he says."It was hard to go home at night and deal with those emotions." Arash Hosseini, a nurse from Bothell, Wash., says he was"obsessive" about wearing proper personal protective equipment. Still, his wife came down with many of the"classic symptoms" of COVID-19, but she wasn't sick enough to get tested.
"I feel like I am abandoning nurses, if I don't go," Prybylski says."But it gives me anxiety to know, if I go out there, I am going to be at risk every single day."With all the risks healthcare workers face, many hospitals are also admonishing them when they share their stories. Supervisors and administrators have sent out emails at various hospitals reminding healthcare workers not to speak to the press or post on social media.
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