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Traveling nurse on treating COVID patients at hotspots
Traveling nurse Sharlene Jenkins worked eight weeks in the COVID Intensive Care Unit at NYU. “Every shift you would see the carts that carry the dead bodies down to the morgue rolling by. It’d be like, ‘Oh, somebody else died.’
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenTraveling nurse Sharlene Jenkins worked eight weeks in the COVID Intensive Care Unit at NYU. “Every shift you would see the carts that carry the dead bodies down to the morgue rolling by. It’d be like, ‘Oh, somebody else died.’ And I would see that a few times per shift,” she says.
Her next assignment is in Arizona, which has become another hotspot of the pandemic.
