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.
Life, Health, and Policy. 
You are a mensch, my friend. I hold you and all your colleagues in the Light that whatever it is the Universe arose from will keep you safe.
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That’s good to hear doc! There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.Sending you and your colleagues our ❤️heartfelt thankfulness for working the front line.
You all are so brave and my biggest hero’s. A prayer for you all.
O merciful Father, who have wonderfully fashioned man in your own image, and have made his body to be a temple of the Holy Spirit, sanctify, we pray you, our doctors and nurses and all those whom you have called to study and practice the arts of healing the sick and the prevention of disease and pain. Strengthen them in body and soul, and bless their work, that they may give comfort to those for whose salvation your Son became Man, lived on this earth, healed the sick, and suffered and died on the Cross. Amen.🙏🏻🙏🏻
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You truly are an amazing person and an inspiration to all!! Thank you Doc for all you do and continue to do.❣️God bless and watch over you,thank you for your hard work 🙏🏼🙏🏼 beautiful update ! As we started this holy week it’s so good to hear “Here comes the sun!! 🌞🌞
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Dr. Calves in all the time I’ve worked in the same building as you I’m sorry to say I never really knew you. Your posts I’m sure are just a mere touch of your humanity, and of course your wit. Thank you so much for keeping it real and not just quoting the CDC. May God Bless you, your family, your coworkers and keep you all safe.
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