'My anxiety level is 100% more. My anxiety begins a day before going into work.”
more symptoms of anxiety, depressive disorder, suicidal ideation and increased substance abuse to cope with their pandemic-related stress. These symptoms were more prevalent among essential workers, unpaid caregivers for adults and those with pre-existing mental health conditions.
Stephanie Perez is a pediatric ICU nurse at a hospital in New York City whose unit began admitting 20- and 30-year-old COVID-19 patients at the height of the pandemic, when people of all ages -- not just the elderly -- began getting sick. She saw the healing power of family firsthand with a patient who had been placed on life support. She said he was constantly concerned about his family.
To date, the United States has been hit harder than any other country by the pandemic, with more than 6.5 million diagnosed cases and at least 193,976 deaths. "You can only really just do two things," Ory added."It’s just work and go home, work and go home. So, you know, that sort of cycle is a bit taxing at times. But just staying the course and trying to stay strong, thinking that there are better days ahead is what’s most encouraging at times."Pediatric ICU nurse Stephanie Perez and her boyfriend Greg Ory, a medical ICU nurse, normally travel for some respite from their demanding jobs.
Ory and Perez’s father were both able to recover from the virus, and the couple has since bought a house together and moved out of their families’ homes. Pediatric ICU nurse Stephanie Perez and her boyfriend Greg Ory, a medical ICU nurse, march for Black Lives Matter following the death of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
For Rosario Salazar, an emergency room nurse at an LA hospital, there were stressful moments in her personal life and at work. Her godmother, the mother of six of her cousins and a stage 4 cancer patient, died from COVID-19. Salazar said her godmother went to the hospital a day later and that “her oxygen levels were really low.” Being a medical provider, she said she was able to gain visitation access to see her godmother, but her cousins could not.
Salazar says that personally, being a front-line worker during the pandemic hasn’t been traumatizing. She expressed appreciation for the job she has and the “nice home” she can return to, where her ER doctor husband and her children remain healthy. She also said she doesn’t consider herself a hero.Rosario Salazar, an emergency room nurse poses for a photo with her husband, Stephen Kishineff, an ER doctor. Both have been working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
There’s been uncertainty with regard to the use and availability of personal protective equipment for each of the health care workers ABC News spoke to at different stages of the pandemic. In a statement, Good Samaritan Hospital said it has followed PPE guidelines from the CDC and the California Department of Public Health, including for “the use of masks throughout the coronavirus pandemic. We have maintained a high supply of masks and continue to provide appropriate masks for our physicians, nurses, staff, patients and visitors at all times.”
“So before, we would wear maybe a mask if we thought the kid was infected,” she said. “Now, it doesn’t matter. … You always wear a mask. You always wear face shields. You always wear full PPE with the possible exception of an N95,” she said. “Those can be reserved for COVID patients or patients you suspect are positive.
“You’re constantly living in fear, because there were not consistent answers from guiding entities, especially in the very early phase of this,” she added.. Juarez says her unit hasn’t been adequately staffed to care for the amount of COVID-19 patients they’re seeing.
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