From twitter
Daughter of frontline worker says never seen heart rate rbc count like this...its like the virus sticks your finger into a light socket
This story scares the hell out of me
Report from the front lines:
My daughter is a nurse in the pediatric ICU at a major hospital in Baltimore (I work for the same hospital). They converted half of the PICU into a COVID ICU for adult patients to help with the load, and she has been taking care of adult COVID patients for the last several shifts. She says the bit about these patients having a lot of blood clots is very real. Their blood is very viscous. She says they’ve never seen anything like it. IVs and other blood processing equipment (e.g., ECMO) are clogging at very high rates.
For the good news, the need to use the PICU for adult patients is declining, and they’re planning on moving them back to adult floors.