By: NY Anonymous

NY Anonymous
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 06:05:56 +0000

Hi from NYC Front line ICU Hospital Practitioner who has served through 9-11 and Hurricane Sandy:
you may have seen my hospital on 60 minutes
Two months of stay-at-home was the savior in NYC. It was amazing to see Times square completely empty.

I am sending my son without reservation to OSU in the fall. I have treated a variety of patients from the very ill on ECMO to personal friends ( including NYPD) COVID+ with bilateral pneumonia who successfully recovered at home. Unfortunately, my friends mother died in the hospital from COVID coagulopathy.

Abby, while I understand your passion, it is unrealistic to shut down life forever. The average age of patients in my ICU was 60. The college kids I know that recovered at home had fever, chills, and cough which resolved within a week-ish. Similar to flu.

Yes it is about money. Everyone’s money. Direct income and trickle down income. I have met a number of young people who work in service industry jobs who don’t have money for college and are trying to make ends meet.

Distance learning is the wave of the future and both my children succeeded completing the year in this format. Arguably, their Catholic schools have been completely on iPad with virtual days scattered throughout the year. The curriculum was the same, attendance and participation mandatory.

Let’s have faith that COVID will eventually resolve and let us be also grateful that we are able to dialogue and anticipate the future. COVID has been an eye-opening experience in many facets including bringing essential manufacturing back to the US and preparing our response to a future possibly more deadly pandemic