key: cord-0890540-ipxwf4pv
authors: Aisenberg, Gabriel M.
title: A message from the trench: A day in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic
date: 2020-05-19
journal: J Electrocardiol
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2020.05.012
sha: 8fc7cef316695ae35b0cfdf228138d508c8b841d
doc_id: 890540
cord_uid: ipxwf4pv

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J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f distribution has almost become a cliché [1] ; yet, the pandemic created new challenges.

The medical students are home: they are considered non-essentials, and the Dean decides that "School's Out for summer", as Alice Cooper would say. Longing for the COVID-19 surge, the hospital teams reorganized to increase efficiency and avoid burnout. I meet with the third-year resident and the intern; a future dermatologist, who I have known since she was a student. My team has only volunteers; they want to see patients with COVID-19. At this moment of the pandemic, we have learned that asymptomatic transmission occurs and that with adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) no one in our hospital caught the virus [2, 3] . This combination makes us feel safe, as every one of our suspected COVID-19 patients is seen in full PPE, and our risk is thus low. The few patients we see only wearing our masks have already been 

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