Varon, who runs the hospital’s coronavirus unit, was wearing complete, non-public protective equipment (PPE) when he stopped to surround a man being treated in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with his arms.
The photograph, taken through a Getty photographer, temporarily went viral as the United States continues to see more than 100,000 newly diagnosed cases of COVID-19 consistent with the day.
“I was very unhappy because he’s in a room where he doesn’t know anyone,” Varon told “Good Morning America” about the patient, who hasn’t been identified. “We come dressed as astronauts, and I regularly have my image with so they know who I am when I happen to see them, it’s very frustrating for patients and he was very excited. “
“And when I heard [his emotion], I hugged him,” Varon added.
Varon said the COVID-19 adventure has been difficult not only for patients, but also for doctors like him. He described running 24 hours a day, day after day, to care for patients.
“My days can last 16 hours Array . . . and then when I get home, I get a million phone calls in the middle of the night,” he said. you, “I still don’t know when or what time. Sometimes I don’t come home the same day. “
Hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients in the United States reached an all-time high of 93,238 on Sunday, according to the COVID Monitoring Project.
As the number of instances and hospitalizations continues to increase, Varon said he is frustrated by others who did not practice COVID-19 protection guidelines, adding dressed in a face mask and social estating.
“We are frustrated because we see that people come very, very ill of health and when you ask them, ‘How did you do [COVID-19]?’, Essentially they tell you that they did not stick to any of the things we asked them to adhere kindly to, without social estating, without masks, going to big meetings,” he said. “And then come to us near death. “
“We are exhausted. We’re tired,” he said of his fellow doctors and nurses. “I have nurses [who] cry in the middle of the day because they continue to receive patients and there are simply not enough nurses who can help us. “. “
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