Today, at the hospital where I work, one of the largest in New York City, Covid-19 cases continue to climb, and there\u2019s movement to redeploy as many health care workers as possible to the E.R.s, new \u201cfever clinics\u201d and I.C.U.s. It\u2019s becoming an all-healthy-hands-on-deck scenario.<\/p>\n
The sky is falling. I\u2019m not afraid to say it. A few weeks from now you may call me an alarmist; and I can live with that. Actually, I will keel over with happiness if I\u2019m proven wrong.<\/p>\n
Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. I\u2019m a board-certified surgeon and critical care specialist who spent much of my training attending to traumas in the emergency room and doing the rounds at Harvard hospitals\u2019 intensive care units. I\u2019m now in my last four months of training as a pediatric surgeon in New York City. Part of my job entails waking in the middle of the night to rush to the children\u2019s hospital to put babies on a form of life support called ECMO, a service required when a child\u2019s lungs are failing even with maximum ventilator support. Scenarios that mimic end-stage Covid-19 are part of my job. Panic is not in my vocabulary; the emotion has been drilled out of me in nine years of training. This is different.<\/p>\n
We are living in a global public health crisis moving at a speed and scale never witnessed by living generations. The cracks in our medical and financial systems are being splayed open like a gashing wound. No matter how this plays out, life will forever look a little different for all of us.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Opinion | A New York Doctor\u2019s Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling – The New York Times https:\/\/t.co\/U9AsOzSUIo<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n