On the top floor of the hospital, in the unit that houses the sickest Covid-19 patients, 13 of the 14 beds were occupied. In the one empty room, a person had just died.<\/p>\n
Through surge after surge, caregivers in the unit at Covenant HealthCare in Saginaw, Mich., have helped ailing patients say goodbye to their relatives on video calls. The medical workers have cried in the dimly lit hallways. They have seen caseloads wane, only to watch beds fill up again. Mostly, they have learned to fear the worst.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou come back to work and you ask who died,\u201d said Bridget Klingenberg, an intensive care nurse at Covenant, where staff levels are so strained that the Defense Department recently sent reinforcements. \u201cI don\u2019t think people understand the toll that that takes unless you\u2019ve actually done it.\u201d <\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Surge after surge, hospital beds empty only to be filled again: U.S. health workers are near the breaking point as they prepare to face Omicron. https:\/\/t.co\/EwELWcOQIV<\/a><\/p>\n — The New York Times (@nytimes) December 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n