It breaks my heart that patients who will get sick enough to need them won’t know what desperate situations they face.
Day by day, as the number of Covid-19 deaths soar, we see more clearly that many of us will not survive this storm.
In the most serious cases, breathing becomes so labored that ventilators have to be used to keep patients alive. That there may not be enough of these machines is horrifying and infuriating.
But even if there were, it breaks my heart that Americans who get sick enough to need them won’t know what desperate situations they face, nor will they understand what ventilators can do to help, and what they can never fix…
To read the entire article from The New York Times, click https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/opinion/coronavirus-ventilators.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
