An accurate description
A raging COVID wave is crashing into Maryland hospitals’ emergency departments, from The Baltimore Sun
And Gov. Hogan did declare a 30-day state of emergency a couple days after this article was published.
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At first, the warm meal donations poured in. Lawn signs, bumper stickers and billboards saluted the “heroes” for their bravery. Then came the national accolades, including Time’s “2020 Guardians of the Year.”
The buzz around front-line health care workers died down after that, said Dr. Gabor Kelen, director of the department of emergency medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Masks came off, concerts sold out, cruise ships left their ports. The work treating COVID-19 patients continued, Kelen said, albeit behind closed doors. Now, with even more contagious strains of COVID-19 running rampant, a depleted workforce is all that’s left to care for Maryland’s sick. Under the shadow of this seismic wave of infection, the demands are just as, if not more, crushing, Kelen said, but the gratitude of waves past is gone.
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And Gov. Hogan did declare a 30-day state of emergency a couple days after this article was published.
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At first, the warm meal donations poured in. Lawn signs, bumper stickers and billboards saluted the “heroes” for their bravery. Then came the national accolades, including Time’s “2020 Guardians of the Year.”
The buzz around front-line health care workers died down after that, said Dr. Gabor Kelen, director of the department of emergency medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Masks came off, concerts sold out, cruise ships left their ports. The work treating COVID-19 patients continued, Kelen said, albeit behind closed doors. Now, with even more contagious strains of COVID-19 running rampant, a depleted workforce is all that’s left to care for Maryland’s sick. Under the shadow of this seismic wave of infection, the demands are just as, if not more, crushing, Kelen said, but the gratitude of waves past is gone.
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