COVID-19 patients and young people fighting for their lives – weigh heavily on her.There is no escaping that reality even when she’s home with her family, who she tries not to burden with her worries.
Ontario reports 4,250 new COVID-19 cases, 18 more deaths “Sometimes when I sleep, I just keep thinking,” she says during a short break after her team has intubated another COVID-19 patient struggling to breathe. “Those things are going through my mind and I just want to shut it down, just shut it off for a minute.”Another worry that keeps her up at night is the ICU staffing crunch and her team’s high level of turnover at this stage of the third wave of the pandemic.“The thing is, we are not only taking care of the patients,” she says. “We.