A nurse without an N95 mask raced in to treat a 'code blue' patient. She died 14 days later.
The decision that Celia Marcos made, the one that would ultimately steal years from her life, had been hard-wired after decades working as a nurse.
As charge nurse, Marcos was required to respond to patients who stopped breathing, but she wasn't provided an N95 mask at the beginning of her shift, her coworkers say. The masks are scarce, and staff who do get them are often asked to reuse them over multiple days, they said. Story continuesHollywood Presbyterian officials denied that Marcos treated COVID patients without proper protective gear and said the hospital adheres to all local and federal recommendations."Despite these efforts, and our commitment to following all guidelines, we still lost one of our own to this terrible virus, and we feel this loss very deeply," administrators said in a statement to The Times.
"She's the type of person who in an emergency you can really count on," said another colleague, who also asked for anonymity for fear of retaliation."She's the calm that we can look to in order to get through."A man admitted on her floor with COVID-19 had been complaining that he wanted to go home because he didn't feel sick. Two hours later, he stopped breathing, Marcos wrote in a text to her niece Andrea Gian Lardizabal, who works as a nurse in the Philippines.
"Celia was called to a COVID-19 isolation room while wearing only a surgical mask — not the required N95 respirator, gown, face shield, and booties that her hospital should have given her for her protection," said SEIU 121RN President Nina Wells said in a statement to the Times."Now we know she gave her life to try to save a life."
"Imagine you get inside the room just wearing those. Do you feel protected?" said one COVID-19 nurse at Hollywood Presbyterian, who added that she had been repeatedly told she didn't need an N95 for most patient visits."I don't trust the CDC anymore." "No wonder a lot of covid patients get intubated and some die in just a few days," she wrote in a text."Pls be extra careful."Marcos began feeling sick three days after she treated the man with COVID. She told her niece that she was doing steam inhalation twice a day as a preventive measure.
Her labored breathing made it difficult for her to talk, Donald recalled. Through their screens, the two watched each other cry. Some have suggested there were problems with Marcos' care and that some staff were scared to treat her for fear of catching the virus themselves.
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