“There’s no point in being judgmental in that situation. There’s no point in telling them, ‘You should have gotten the vaccine or you wouldn’t be here,’”
Kelly Sites, a nurse and team leader with the Samaritan's Purse International Relief medical team in Jackson, Miss., speaks of the group's medical missions and how it has affected her, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Sites has been deployed 22 medical missions with the nondenominational evangelical Christian organization that provides spiritual and medical aid internationally and domestically. JACKSON, Miss.
Physicians at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the only level one trauma center in all of Mississippi, are caring for the sickest patients in the state. “Most of us still have enough emotional reserve to be compassionate, but you leave work at the end of the day just exhausted by the effort it takes to drug that compassion up for people who are not taking care of themselves and the people around them,” she said.
Moriarity said this surge has taken a toll on morale more than previous peaks of the virus. Her team thought in May and June that despite Mississippi’s low vaccination rate, there was an end in sight. The hospital’s ICUs were empty and they had few COVID patients. Then cases surged with the delta variant of the virus, swamping the hospital.
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