NYC Medics Cut COVID-19 Life-Saving Efforts in Half
Hundreds of times a day, New York City paramedics demonstrate that theirs is the most dangerous and heartbreaking job in the pandemic’s ground zero.
The danger comes with the extreme opposite of social distancing, the paramedics racing with lights and sirens to the latest COVID-19-related cardiac arrest in a city where the official death count for confirmed cases stands at more than 3,000, but some 175 more a day go uncounted when they die at home.
The first five days of April saw some 1,000 die at home. Some had been sent home from the hospital; others had visited a doctor or a clinic; some had just toughed it out. Few had likely been tested and therefore went uncounted. Each was pronounced dead by paramedics who first sought to save them and in so doing risked the very same fate.
“With CPR, you’re getting up close and personal,” a Brooklyn paramedic told The Daily Beast.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-city-paramedics-called-to-coronavirus-doa-cases-describe-horror-show?ref=home
Comment: This is a very good read. Hats off to the NYC Medics
