Doctor treating Covid-19: ‘I went home in tears’

He jumped up and saw that his wife, Gabriela, had fainted.

Nearly 5 months later, Dr. Garner is still haunted by what happened to his family.

`I feel very guilty. This is my job, what I do for a living. But it could kill my wife and children,` he shared.

In recent months, when the number of nCoV infections in Texas increased again, his nightmare repeated.

Treating a large number of patients, the fear of reinfection with the virus is always on his mind, even though this is a rare phenomenon.

Dr. Orlando Garner, physician at Baylor College of Medicine Hospital.

The team of doctors and nurses who fought in both waves of the pandemic that swept across the United States remained unchanged.

In interviews, more than 20 frontline health workers said chronic stress has become part of the global health crisis.

For others, Covid-19 is a war without a break.

`We have to sacrifice a lot as healers, which is our own health and our families’ health. But I feel like the deaths of 20,000 patients in New York are meaningless to some

He started his work when the pandemic first started.

The current crisis turned out to be a much stranger and more formidable enemy, following him around every corner.

`I returned home in tears and fainted,` he said.

The pandemic forced Gilman to cancel his wedding in May. His graduation ceremony from the medical residency program was conducted on the video calling application Zoom.

`It was the saddest moment ever,` he said.

Dr. Cleavon Gilman, emergency department at a hospital in Yuma City, Arizona.

Within weeks, he and his family moved to Arizona, where the number of cases began to decline.

He shares his experiences on his personal page.

Many medical staff have reached their limit of exhaustion, no longer able to cope with the disease that has killed more than 1,000 colleagues.

Susannah Hills, a surgeon at Columbia University Hospital, shared: `I can’t even think about how my day was. I don’t remember the last time anyone asked me about this.`

For geriatrician Shannon Tapia, April and May are terrible times.

But in recent weeks, the virus suddenly flared up again, causing many elderly people in nursing homes to collapse.

Dr. Tapia witnessed care facilities struggling to keep inventory of protective equipment in stock.

Geriatrician Shannon Tapia.

At the end of the summer, she considered leaving medicine.

As of November 30, the US had more than 13 million infections and more than 270,000 deaths from Covid-19.

For a long time, American doctors and nurses no longer hear the passionate cheers every night, the resounding applause from buildings and hospital windows every 7pm like in April. That was once a thank you.

`No one claps anymore. They got over it,` said psychiatrist Jessica Gold, Washington University in St.

Healthcare workers have been at the center of discussions about Covid-19.

Others shed the `hero` cape attached to them by the media and advertising campaigns.

Dr. Nicole Washington, who works in the psychiatric department at an Oklahoma City hospital, said the word `hero` evokes a feeling of bravery and superhumanity.