Dispatches from the Frontlines: A Critical Care Nurse's Response to COVID19

As a critical care RN on Emory University Hospital's Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU) – the regional treatment center best known for accepting the first Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) patients in the United States – one of my most important responsibilities is to train Emory clinicians to safely care for people with highly pathogenic infectious diseases. On January 7th, 2020, while co -facilitating one of these trainings, a colleague casually asked if I'd heard about the clusters of pneumonia in China.
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