It's a real thing I volunteer for this

He is right . We started w 2 covid teams back in March 11th .
I need 8 teams now , I barely hold 4, nurses are sick , doctors are sick , and pretty soon elective surgeries will have to go bye bye again , simply no beds .
Trauma and acute strokes and cardiac episodes suffer too , as there are not enough beds and nurses to treat them appropriately .
When covid consumes 1 nurse per 3 pts , maximum I can load that nurse is 4 pts ( and “ pray “ that she can handle it ), do the math , I just have no people left .
I am in a 400 inpatient bed capacity and I don’t have beds even for ED observation as we speak
The opening of schools back in October was a huge mistake , and yesterday I intubated another 54 yr old , mother of two teens , nothing but a mild asthma as history .
Pls stay home if u can , we losing r shit as it is , we don’t want money , we don’t want capes , we don’t want recognition , all we ask for is enough ppe , and enough coworkers to keep doing what we doing .
We also want to sit home one of these days w foods and drinks and long showers and not feeling guilty that the community needs us . That’s all we ask man , is that too much to ask ?

Yeah there are those on this site. I just hope when they get infected, they don't spread it to any nice people.