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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Painless, Albany Med worker says after getting first coronavirus inoculation
Albany Med began administering first doses of the Pfizer vaccine Monday afternoon
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1of23Buy PhotoLindsay Kolysko, nurse educator in emergency room, right, scans information after administering one of the first doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Cynthia Tanksley, patient associate specialist in emergency room, at Albany Medical Center on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 in Albany, N.Y. The hospital staff started vaccinating their health care workers on the first day the vaccine was administered in the United States. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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