FIGHTING COVID-19
Aug 13, 2020
4 minutes
—As told to KC Ifeanyi
PHOTOGRAPH BY
MICHAEL STARGHILL
AROUND MARCH, COVID cases progressed overseas and started hitting New York. That’s when we started trying to protect ourselves in the ER.
I was an ER resident at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, where I worked between its campuses at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center. We were fortunate to have a pretty decent supply of PPE, including masks and gowns, which allowed us to protect ourselves the best we could.
But I was in the ER on a daily basis, where each day the number of patients increased significantly. We would see upwards of
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