'Having that faith in God anchoring everything that's going on around me,' he tells Morning Edition, 'and always having that to turn back to, knowing that there's nothing too big for God, nor is there anything too small for God - that is absolutely keeping me through this pandemic.' Rocky Walker, a chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, turns to his faith to keep going. And I just worry that 2020 can't keep going like this.' 'I've seen a lot over the past six months. Working in a trauma center, we're the canaries in the mine of public health,' Shah says. We serve as witness to all the tragedy of the community. Sachita Shah of Harborview Medical Center says caring for COVID-19 patients is 'just part of our new life.'Īfter more than half a year treating COVID-19 patients, 'the thing that I worry about and the thing that's most different is I worry about health care worker resilience,' she tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on All Things Considered. Staffers made a music video in the COVID-19 unit, just to 'go crazy.' He makes it through the days by telling jokes, making fun of things. I mean, just start crying because they cannot cope,' he tells NPR's Noel King on Morning Edition. 'I have seen nurses cry in the middle of the day.

Varon supervises a large staff, who are still on edge. And also the sense that if I don't do what I'm doing right now, nobody else is going to.' Joseph Varon, chief of critical care at Houston's United Memorial Medical Center. More are expected to die as the weather gets colder.įor people who work in hospitals, the challenges haven't gone away. Though the number of daily fatalities has gone down since the highs of spring, COVID-19 still claims the lives of hundreds of people in the U.S.

marked 100,000 recorded deaths from COVID-19 on May 27.

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