We are Like a Family in the ICU and we will Get Through This: Nurse on the Front Line of COVID-19
Kara Gates, RN, is on the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic. A registered nurse in the intensive care unit of Glens Falls Hospital in upstate New York, she has been working almost 15-hour shifts, from 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., in a state that is one of the hardest hit by the novel coronavirus. With New York City now an epicenter of the disease, her 391-bed community hospital and others in the area are bracing for a wave of patients over the next months.
