US doctors reflect on exhaustion, trauma of one million Covid deaths
Washington (AFP) - Joseph Varon -- who is chief of intensive care at United Memorial, a small hospital that mainly treats minority patients in Houston -- made headlines when a photo of him hugging an elderly Covid patient during Thanksgiving in 2020 went viral. While that man went on to recover, it was those that did not make it that haunt Varon. "As a doctor, just in the last two years I have signed more death certificates than ever," he said. As the United States marks the grim milestone of one million Covid deaths, health care workers who have served on the frontlines continue to shoulder ...