‘They look fine, and then they’re unresponsive’, reveal US medics
The suddenness of patient deterioration is shocking front line doctors and nurses
The speed with which patients deteriorate and die from the novel coronavirus is shocking even veteran doctors and nurses as they scramble to work out how to save patients.
They “look fine, feel fine, then you turn around and they’re unresponsive,” said Diana Torres, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, NY, the epicenter of the US pandemic.