Produced by AJ+, the animated video illustrates what it’s like to wake up, guzzle down coffee, strap on a mask and get to work in a covid-ravaged hospital. It’s a sensory experience, from the din of the coughs of covid-19 patients to the beeps that indicate they need life support. Although it was produced in May during the first wave of covid-19 in New York, it’s a glimpse into the toll the pandemic is taking on medical professionals throughout the country as ERs and intensive care units fill. Spencer, director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, has written several pieces for The Washington Post about his experiences. “We’re all being asked to do things we’ve never done before,” says Spencer, who contracted Ebola while treating patients as a volunteer with Doctors Without Borders in West Africa.

Source: Washington Post December 12, 2020 13:04 UTC