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[...]

"For the rest of your shift, nearly every hour, you get paged:

"Stat notification: Very sick patient, short of breath, fever. Oxygen 88%.

"Stat notification: Low blood pressure, short of breath, low oxygen.

"Stat notification: Low oxygen, can't
breath. Fever.

"All day...

"Sometime in the afternoon you recognize you haven't drank any water. You're afraid to take off the mask. It's the only thing that protects you. Surely you can last a little longer - in West Africa during Ebola, you spent hours in a hot suit without water. One more patient...

[...]

"You might hear people saying it isn't real. It is.

"You might hear people saying it isn't bad. It is.

"You might hear people saying it can't take you down. It can.

"I survived Ebola. I fear #COVID-19.

"Do your part. Stay home. Stay safe.

"And every day I'll come to work for you"

-- Craig Spencer MD MPH (Craig_A_Spencer), 2020-03-24