Since this has all started there have been several waves here in the hospital.

First there were the old nursing home patients, then there are the younger folks with co-morbidity.

Now we are seeing the lower socioeconomic community, the Hispanic and African American community. I work in a fairly well off Hospital in a fairly well of suburb of New York, but there has always been this “service” class that has existed if not unofficially, certainly not counted in the minds of those who plan for these things.

This will change in the future I hope as the second wave of COVID is exposing the system for never seeing them.

On the bright side, we are discharging many more people safely to home and every time someone who has survived Covid goes home they play “Here comes the sun” overhead. It makes you smile to know not all is about death.

The next weeks are a marathon as we keep sweeping against the tide. We can only hope to have enough left in our own tanks to get us through.