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This post reminded me about my neighbour.
She's an ITU nurse also but isn't able to be involved in this because she's disabled and has lung problems herself. She is beside herself that she can't be side by side with her team.
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She has to launder her own scrubs, otherwise they will go missing in the hospital laundry.
My local hospital usually utilises a large number of volunteers over the age of 70. Of course these were sent home weeks ago causing issues like this.
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More anecdote. My sister is a geriatrician in a London hospital. She is concerned with the lack of social care which impacts on hospital beds, and if this has been properly understood by those making strategic decisions. Also that the NHS only just holds itself together in a normal year. My other sister is a palliative care specialist and while preparing to be called on to do hospital frontline stuff (she only switched from being a hospital doctor recently) she pointed out that all the frontline workers whether trained or not are going to be dealing with a lot of death and grieving families, as well as lonely deaths, and the weirdness of masks and distancing. (I may have somewhat un-anonymised myself there.)
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Coronanecdote time (and fuel to the fire, for which I apoolgise in advance)
Sister-in-law is an ITU nurse, which is pretty front-line at the moment.
The PPE situation is jokes - She has to launder her own scrubs, otherwise they will go missing in the hospital laundry.
Admin (lel) has asked her to re-use facemasks...
She reckons that their c19+ve capacity will be reached within a week.
More positively, people are otherwise staying away from the hospital.