[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]Clavel is a registered nurse, but her normal job was in a maternity ward bringing babies into the world.
Suddenly, she found herself jumping from one residence to another, watching seniors take their last breath.“The first month was the hardest, because I saw a lot of people die,” she says. “One or two people each day.
I never expected that.”There were days where Clavel says she felt like the was living a nightmare. Some facilities were so short-staffed she would find herself alone overnight caring for close to 30 patients.
People were dying not only due to complications from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, but because they weren’t being fed.