2 a.m. thoughts of an emergency physician during the pandemic
Ooh child
Things are gonna get easier.
Ooh child
Things’ll get brighter.
I sing these words to my one-year-old son quite often; I believe them. I’ll never lose hope.
Hospitalizations hit greater than 90,000 yesterday, and the trajectory is frightening.
This is not a political issue; it’s bigger than any one individual’s opinion. People will continue to die alone and say goodbye on FaceTime.
Thank your grocery store worker and the cleaning person cleaning every COVID+ patient …


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