Opinion: Mobilize the military to improve the response to Covid-19
As Covid-19 sweeps across the world, health care workers have become prime victims of it, accounting for up to 20% of cases in the U.S. Infections and deaths among physicians, nurses, and support staff are straining the ability of hospitals to respond to the disease. The very people who are taking care of patients are becoming patients themselves and spreading the virus to others, including to their own families.
“I feel like we’re all just being sent to slaughter,” Thomas Riley, a nurse at Jacobi Medical Center in New York, told The New York Times. Riley and his husband both contracted the virus. At this scale, current efforts to protect health care workers from infection simply can’t be effective, especially with equipment shortages.
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