Hospital Workers to ‘Complacent’ Americans: Stop Right Now
Anna, a surgical nurse from Texas, knew the pandemic was deadly serious the moment she walked into Coney Island Hospital in New York City and saw a recovery room transformed into a makeshift ICU, lined with ventilated patients. For three weeks, she worked at the front lines of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, watching morgues spring up in the parking lot outside her hospital and paying witness as families said their final goodbyes over iPads.
When she returned from that stint to her hometown of Lubbock in mid-May, she was horrified to see people crowded into bars and restaurants, most of them without face masks.
“They think I’m ridiculous. They don’t believe it,” she said of those she tried to warn about the virus. “[But] I saw it kill young people. Old people, sick people, healthy people.”
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