The speed with which patients are crashing and dying from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is shocking even veteran medical professionals.
According to Reuters, doctors are scrambling to figure out how to stop such sudden deterioration.
Diana Torres is a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
New York is the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, where the virus has infected more than 415,000.
[Patients] look fine, feel fine, then you turn around and they’re unresponsive. Nurse Diana Torres, R.N. Mount Sinai Hospital in New York
One resident ER doctor in New York said patients might enter the hospital chatting happily, only to be “gasping for breath” and intubated a few hours later.
