Watch: Iowa hospital staff share triumphs, struggles and lessons from a year of COVID-19 Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register © Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register Dr. Tamim Mahayni talks with COVID-19 patient Thong Sengphirom after her transfer to the ICU at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.
Doctors and nurses have received deserved praise as front-line heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. But few outside the ecosystem of a hospital can understand what they go through battling COVID-19, or, after nearly a year, just how exhausted they are. Or how helpless they feel when science still has so few answers for why one COVID-19 patient lives and another dies.
Watch: Iowa hospital staff share triumphs, struggles and lessons from a year of COVID-19
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Watch: Iowa hospital staff share triumphs, struggles and lessons from a year of COVID-19 Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register © Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register Dr. Tamim Mahayni talks with COVID-19 patient Thong Sengphirom after her transfer to the ICU at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.
Doctors and nurses have received deserved praise as front-line heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. But few outside the ecosystem of a hospital can understand what they go through battling COVID-19, or, after nearly a year, just how exhausted they are. Or how helpless they feel when science still has so few answers for why one COVID-19 patient lives and another dies.
Inside an Iowa hospital gripped by COVID-19 Des Moines Register © Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register ICU nurse Wanda Ross takes a moment to herself as she cares for COVID-19 patient Thong Sengphirom at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames, Iowa Friday, Dec. 11, 2020.
Doctors and nurses have received deserved praise as front-line heroes of the coronavirus pandemic. But few outside the ecosystem of a hospital can understand what they go through each day in battling COVID-19, or, after nearly a year, just how exhausted they are. Or how helpless they feel when science still has so few answers for why one COVID-19 patient lives and another dies.
Just keep fighting : How COVID-19 tore through one Iowa family
As Thong Sengphirom fights the coronavirus, her family gathers digitally and at her side, making tough decisions from across the internet.
Courtney Crowder, Des Moines Register
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9:58 pm UTC Apr. 5, 2021
Editor s note: Over the past few months, Mary Greeley Medical Center opened its doors to the Des Moines Register, allowing us to tell stories of dedication, sacrifice, exhaustion, loss, pain and joy from inside the hospital. Read the series from the beginning here.
AMES, Iowa Thong Sengphirom is groggy and delirious.
Despite her rapid shallow breaths, her diaphragm pumping like she’s yelling into the wind, her voice is wispy and faint. She’s barely audible over the hubbub of nurses moving beds and equipment and therapists attaching lines and monitors as they transfer her to the ICU.
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