What it's like inside an NYC ER during the coronavirus pandemic - Business Insider

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'Just one week and it's a whole different world': An ER doctor who survived Ebola shares the new reality of treating the coronavirus in NYC

He thinks about that experience as he looks at the tents set up outside his hospital in upper Manhattan. The last time he worked in a tent was in West Africa, he tweeted. , Business Insider's weekly newsletter on pharma, biotech, and healthcare.

"In those same tents, I saw too much pain, loneliness, and death. People dying alone. I never thought I'd have to see or experience that ever again. I never wanted to. Once was painful enough," he tweeted. "We have no other option now." Inside the emergency room, the only patients he's seen have COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

"Working in the ER means walking through a corridor of coughing," he tweeted. "All a slightly different pitch & different frequency, but all caused by the exact same thing."The volume isn't the only new normal hitting Spencer. It's also how severely ill the patients are, often in a state of respiratory arrest that requires being put on ventilators to help support breathing.

 

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