The number of infected people in the United States continues to grow rapidly. The situation in New York is dramatic. A US emergency doctor has now reported from the front. The statements are scary.
- The corona virus * continues to spread in the United States. New York in particular is badly affected.
- A US emergency doctor now described the bad conditions in the epicenter of the USA.
- He had to declare several people dead every day.
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New York - "We lost more sick people than we could save," US emergency doctor Phil Suarez told Bild. The conditions in New York therefore resemble a theater of war. Suarez faces the unvarnished truth there every day. The pandemic had blown up all capacities long ago.
He had to take care of eight to ten patients per shift. It was "the worst thing I've ever experienced" - although Suarez had already witnessed the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 and was used as a trauma doctor in a hospital in Mosul (Iraq) during the war against the terrorist militia ISIS.
The current helplessness brings tears to his eyes. "It is often too late and the victims die while we are still trying to resuscitate them."
Coronavirus in the USA: US emergency doctor describes images of horror
Chaos rules in New York. 7100 emergencies were reported on 911 in one day alone - a sad record. People are afraid. Your fear is justified, after all, the city can no longer cope with the situation alone. A total of 250 ambulances had to be deployed from other regions in the metropolis. He had to declare three to four people dead per shift.
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The stakes hit him. In addition to the traumatizing images, fear tormented him. Because the risk of self-infection is always present. "We still don't know enough about the virus, not least how exactly it is transmitted." Many of his colleagues have already contracted Covid-19, some have died . A long battle is ahead of him and his colleagues, Suarez explains exhausted.
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