US Covid doc: We are 'burned out'
New York (AFP) - Exhausted and overwhelmed by the influx of mostly unvaccinated Covid patients, Dr James Samuel Pope, an intensive care physician at Hartford Hospital in the US state of Connecticut, hopes the Omicron wave of the pandemic will be the last. "It's been very much the wild west for about the last two weeks," says Pope, medical director of the ICU at Hartford Hospital. "More ER visits in a day than we've ever had." Most of the patients Pope sees today are unvaccinated, many of them intubated or attached to ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) systems to help them breathe. Pop...