Cook County Health Media Compilation
Cook County Health Media Compilation Cook County Health News Media Dashboard and Media Compilation The Cook County Health News Media Dashboard: COVID-19 Edition is a visual summary of COVID-19-related news stories that feature Cook County Health experts and leaders from January 21, 2020 through April 28, 2020. January 21 marks the first interview with a Cook County Health expert regarding COVID-19. 1 The following media compilation includes the full text of key news stories mentioning the health system. The first section includes stories about COVID-19, published since January 21. The second section includes stories on other topics published since the previous board meeting on February 28. Part 1: COVID-19 Media Stories Pages 3-267 Part 2: Other Media Stories Pages 268-286 2 Nurses are trying to save us from the virus, and from ourselves April 28, 2020 – Washington Post First, arrive at work before dawn. Then put on a head cover, foot covers, surgical scrubs, and a yellow plastic gown. Next, if one is available, the N95 mask. Fitting it to your face will be the most important 10 seconds of your day. It will protect you, and it will make your head throb. Then, a surgical mask over the N95. A face shield and gloves. Cocooned, you’ll taste your own recycled breath and hear your own heartbeat; you’ll sweat along every slope and crevice of your body. Now, the hard part. Maintain your empathy, efficiency and expertise for 12 or 18 hours, while going thirsty and never sitting down, in an environment that is under-resourced and overworked, because your latest duty — in a profession with limitless duties — is confronting the most frightening pandemic in 100 years while holding people’s hands through it, through two pairs of gloves and a feeling that tomorrow could be worse.
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