America has recorded the world’s highest death toll due to COVID-19, eclipsing the numbers of China and Italy.
And while we are just terrified by the numbers, health workers are the only people staring at reality in the face.
A Facebook post by a nurse from the US gives us a peek into the reality. The nurse, Aleixandrea Macias, has been working in a makeshift ICU for days now and her post is going viral on social media.
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In her post, she talked about how terrifying things really are. She as a nurse has never seen anything like this before.
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Several days into looking after COVID-19 patients in ICU, she hasn’t seen anyone recovering and this detail is terrifying.
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She further shared how it feels to see young people infected with the virus, people who have had no medical problems and who are capable of doing 5 jobs a day.
Urging everyone to take this situation seriously, she wrote:
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You can read her entire post here.