[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]As of Nov. 30, 96 people are in the ICU with COVID-19 and 357 are elsewhere in the hospitals.When she started her shift, Love could tell the nurse practitioner doing the handoff between shifts was exhausted.“I knew that she’d had a very, very long day, that things were very busy and very bad on the unit,” she explained.“The first words I heard out of my colleague’s mouth were, ‘There’s two coming in.
We think they’re both COVID. They’re both very sick.'” Calgary nurse’s post defending front-line workers to ‘internet trolls’ goes viral Love shared her experience on Facebook, saying that over the next 14 hours, she worked steadily, with little time for breaks, food.