I'm gonna assistant professor of emergency medicine at Columbia University within the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Obviously.

So I work on the front lines, obviously, and Mrs Pandemic right now, their patients stacked up in the hallways, the patients who obviously have critically low oxygen levels needs to be intubated.

We'll need a critical care when they just don't have obviously bodies and resources that's needed to miss this current time.

The lack of personal protective equipment has been accused issues here in the United States.

So we are essentially rationing our personal protective equipment.

Well, not saying we don't have any, but obviously isn't at the level of standards that we should be.

I wish I had a had met or a bunny suit essentially Doc in and nobility stations.

But I essentially come in and I have my soul and 95 mask, and I wear a surgical mask over that prevented from getting dirtier oil.

To be honest with you, I've actually had to give up a shift here and there because obviously the added demands of what we're dealing with right now is definitely weighing itself on putting a poll on myself and others.

And initially I was trying to pick up extra shifts, obviously, just to help others out what we're realizing more and more that it's a marathon, not a sprint.

I can tell you nothing like I've experienced before any of my colleagues.

It's But since you're gonna be a before and they're gonna be an after after this honestly, unfortunately not to give a a dire bloom picture, it's going to get worse before it gets better.

Honestly, if you look at the stats and look after you neurological standpoint, it takes about 10 to 16 days from the time someone is infected till the time the test comes back positive.

What that means, essentially, is that the cases that we're seeing now are from two weeks ago, when they were initially effective.

So honestly, I don't anticipate and we don't anticipate that we could peak.

Yet here in New York City and probably many places across across the world, I think there's a lot of ways to cope.

I'm honestly trying to get outside when I can.

I live very close to Central Park, so I try to get outside run exercise and really tried to stay close to the things that obviously keep me sane and healthy.

Just obviously keep my immunity up so that I don't get sick, But people have been created.

Honestly, we're having virtual happy hours.

Some of my colleagues, including psychotherapists and psychologists, have office off their ears and offered to give us Kelly visits.

We have charged just obviously, you know, prevent this emotional burden for essentially kind of cope with what we're dealing with this I think there's a lot of things we can probably do, too, help our health care workers and help the society at large.

I believe we can probably institute a manufacturing act, actually get companies involved and massively produced PP and other critical materials and medicines and things that we need on the front lines obviously deal with this illness because this is not going away intensive.

This is something that we're probably going to sea for months, if not longer.

If we don't continue Bobby's, take this seriously, enact social distancing and do the critical things that we've been reaching for myself for my father's include 1/4 was scared.

There's a level of died here among all of us.

Considering that Corona virus doesn't affect old or those with more.

This is serious, serious illnesses, virus on it effects people of all ages, races, gender, socioeconomic status.

It really doesn't matter the color of who you are.

People are falling to the illness, but I think people need to take it seriously.

And we're obviously aware of that being on the front lines and seeing how it's affected so many.

It's kind of mixed green version of the Hippocratic oath Right now.

No one expections the sign up to take care of patients, obviously with the lack of personal protective equipment and Thio honestly fear for your life every day.

I didn't expect that, but like I said, and I think I pulled from my colleagues and others, there was any time to feel validated about going into medicine, let alone emergency medicine.