Washington: In Albany, New York, an outbreak of the coronavirus erupted among nurses and patients in the cancer unit of a hospital.
Across the state, nurses at hospitals in the Buffalo area bought their own masks and face shields out of concern about the quality of supplies in stock.
And when an emergency room nurse in New Rochelle began her shift, she was asked to care for 15 patients, after her co-workers called out sick.
The accounts recall the early days of the pandemic, when the virus ravaged New York - but these scenes took place over the past several weeks. Nurses and other health care workers in the state have begun to warn about the conditions in hospitals, as virus patients are checking in at an alarming rate.
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âWeâre worse off in some ways than we were in the beginning,â said one nurse about the lack of workers and resources at her New York hospital.
Among health care workers, nurses face a particularly high risk of contracting the virus, according to a recent report by the C.D.C.Credit.Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
Dec. 17, 2020
In Albany, an outbreak of the coronavirus erupted among nurses and patients in the cancer unit of a hospital.
Across the state, nurses at hospitals in the Buffalo area bought their own masks and face shields