Healthcare staff around the world are tired.
Tired, and sore, and run off their feet – and they know the end is still far, far off in the distance.
“I feel broken – and we are only at the start. I am begging people, please please do social distancing and self isolation,” wrote British nurse Natalie Silvey on Twitter.
All your COVID-19 questions, answered. Post continues below video.
She’d just spent nine hours in personal protective equipment moving patients critically ill from COVID-19 around London.
Her face wore the marks of the busy, high stress, uncomfortable shift with deep red and purple bruises caused by the mask she must wear to keep herself safe while working on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.
“I feel your pain.”
In reply, first responders, doctors and nurses shared their own photos to show exactly what it’s like on the frontline and the toll it can take – not just mentally, but physically as well.
This is Giorgio, Modena. After 12 h straight pic.twitter.com/JKzGfw1l0i
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Top Comments
This year the Nobel peace prize needs to be awarded to every single nurse, doctor and healthcare professional who has risked their lives in this crisis. Such incredible people.
Kudos to all of those health care workers putting themselves at risk to care for others. I am so glad that I am now retired (from nursing) as this pandemic scenario was my biggest fear and I know I would not have wanted to go to work under these circumstances. So a big thank you.