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Mary Macdonald, emergency department nurse: “Resources are very slim. We have no medications to keep these patients even ventilated—let alone ventilators. Medications like fentanyl or propofol that would keep a patient sedated while they’re intubated we’re out of.” 9/ https://t.co/tEDq1lzuZg
@WIRED 4 years ago
Craig Spencer, Director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center: “You’re notified of another really sick patient coming in. You rush over. They’re also extremely sick, vomiting. They need to be put on life support ...” 8/ https://t.co/Ic9S5iLVDQ