"We are all scared to death."

We are taking on positive patients as our county officials continue to tell everyone we have no positive cases.

We are only allowed 3 sets of PPE per day but must see 6-9 patients with the average of 5 being positive or showing symptoms.

We are being told to wipe our PPE with hydrogen peroxide wipes between positive patients and between patients that are showing symptoms.

3 of our 5 nurses have fevers greater than 101 and are being ignored as the nurses are needed and “won’t die” from this virus.

We are all scared to death, doing everything we can to decontaminate ourselves before we come home to our families. I personally have a two year old and have no help. I can’t isolate myself from her.

My big question is what are the long term effects of this virus going to be on our lungs? Are we going to end up like the firefighters from 9/11? Not cancer of course but some sort of severe lung disease that’s going to kills us sooner rather than later?

— LPN, March 2020 (USA)