'In the beginning, ending up on a ventilator was basically a death sentence,' Dr. Alex Busko writes. 'Now, there's a decent chance we can save your life. The one thing we haven't figured out yet is how to convince someone to save their own.' | CNNOpinion
Alex Busko is an ER physician and critical care fellow. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New England Journal of Medicine, Emergency Physicians Monthly and Neurosurgery. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his own. View more opinion on CNN.
During my final months of residency training in Florida this past spring, I lost count of how many young, healthy Covid-19 patients I cared for in the emergency room who just never imagined that they -- of all people -- could become seriously ill. In the early stages of the pandemic, my sickest patients were almost exclusively older people with chronic health problems. But after the vaccine rollout and the giddy days of"reopening" -- followed by the arrival of the more contagious Delta variant -- all that changed.Alex BuskoNow the patients I see, frightened and struggling to breathe, are mostly in their 30s, 40s and 50s. They come from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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