She was surprised at the anger directed at her. She isn’t a politician. Her job is to take care of people.
from the intensive care unit at a hospital where she takes care of patients who contracted COVID-19.
“Whether you believe in the virus or not, we’re the people who are going to take care of you one way or the other,” she said Tuesday in a phone interview with The Arizona Republic, part of the USA TODAY Network. “It was disheartening to have those kinds of comments thrown in my face.”Treating her first COVID-19 patient opened her eyes
She said working on that first patient, a young woman in severe respiratory distress, was eye-opening. It made her realize someone her age could suffer greatly from the disease.She has since worked 12-hour shifts three or four days a week. The unit, she said, has been running below capacity, but doctors describe it as teetering on a tipping point.
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