The speed with which patients are crashing and dying from the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is shocking even veteran medical professionals.<br />According to Reuters, doctors are scrambling to figure out how to stop such sudden deterioration.<br />Diana Torres is a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.<br />New York is the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, where the virus has infected more than 415,000.<br />[Patients] look fine, feel fine, then you turn around and they’re unresponsive. Nurse Diana Torres, R.N. Mount Sinai Hospital in New York<br />One resident ER doctor in New York said patients might enter the hospital chatting happily, only to be “gasping for breath” and intubated a few hours later.
