Syracuse health care workers take on mental burden of fighting COVID-19
Corey Henry | Senior Staff Photographer
Dr. Jay Brenner remembers ensuring his first COVID-19 patient that the hospital would do all it could to treat him, shortly before that patient died.
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William Paolo was working with other patients in the emergency room when Onondaga County’s first COVID-19 patient arrived. The county announced its first two cases, a woman in her 70s and her husband, on March 16, 2020.
Soon enough, the emergency room at Upstate Community Hospital was divided with barriers separating patients who had COVID-19 symptoms — cough, fever, loss of taste or smell — from others. But doctors were careful never to call it the “coronavirus side.”