These medical personnel are putting their own lives at risk to help the stricken check out these health care workers in HAZ mat suits at a drive through testing site in New Rochelle, the epicenter of the outbreak in the nation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo praised their work last night on 60 Minutes.

God bless them.

God bless them.

God bless them.

I marvel at their courage.

Nurse Lisa Mark from Colorado tested positive for Corona virus.

When I heard that I had Corona virus, I just might stomach kind of sank.

I got, you know, like a nervous feeling, and it's just really scary.

It's like, Oh my gosh, if I had the Corona virus, how long have I had it?

Who have exposed what's gonna happen to me?

She says her illness started with a runny nose and continued to worsen.

So your sickness was a course of a couple weeks.

My muscles ache really about in my joints, but it felt like something like I was getting stabbed, like with the ice pick in some of my large muscles.

Did you think you could die?

Lisa, you know, when you share the news and all the, um the severity of it, Yeah, you do think you you could die from it.

Concerns over the safety of health care workers is a growing problem.

As more done, doctors and nurses are being exposed to Cove in 19.

Hundreds of them have already been sent home to self quarantine, creating possible staffing shortages at hospitals across the U.

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Some states are calling on doctors and nurses to come out of retirement.

Potential fill ins are also being recruited from medical schools.

Phrase for these heroes could be heard across the globe as ordinary people break out in cheers from balconies in self quarantine.

Italy, Spain, Albania to go.

Americans joined them in saying Thank you.