The donations that are collected from this campaign will go towards these services and support to doctors, nurses and other health care workers on the front lines: -Meals. For hospital staff that are working without breaks to eat. -Prepackaged groceries, as there is no time to grocery shop between extended shifts. -Hotel rooms. For staff that are directly caring for COVID-19 patients and don’t want to go home and risk exposure to their families.  -Laundry service, as there is no time to clean work clothes and scrubs. -Scrubs, to ensure staff does not need to wear soiled clothes from the hospital home.  Please Help Support The Exhausted NYC Medical Staffers Overwhelmed and Trapped at The Epicenter of the American Coronavirus Outbreak. One nurse said, “This is a battlefield, and we’ve turned ourselves from nurses into soldiers. We all took an oath and we all have a responsibility to our patients.  This is what we were born to do.” “9/11 was nothing compared to this.” -New York doctor on coronavirus crisis The coronavirus pandemic is beginning to take a toll on those who are most needed to combat it: the doctors, nurses and other workers at hospitals and clinics. <iframe media_type="0" media_id="OVp2U2p4lmE" class="youtube-replace" title="YouTube video player" style="margin-bottom:20px;width:560px;height:315px;" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/OVp2U2p4lmE/?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="1"></iframe> Frontline medical workers in New York are experiencing a surge of patients unlike anything they have seen in their careers, and NYC is at the center of this coronavirus pandemic in the United States. As of Monday afternoon, there have been more than 138,836 confirmed cases of the coronavirus discovered in New York, including more than 72,181 in New York City alone.  At least 4,758 people with COVID-19 have died in the state, which has the largest number — around 40 percent — of confirmed cases in the U.S. 72,181 cases in New York City ALONE! To put that in context, the next closest STATE has just 41,090 cases at the time of this writing.                                                                             Coronavirus Drives NYC’s Hospitals to Breaking Point “All the hospitals combined had about 20,000 staffed hospital beds. We now need to — in just the next weeks — triple that number,” Mayor De Blasio The coronavirus tearing through New York has brought the city's medical system to its knees. With this massive surge in patients, medical workers say the hospitals look and feel more like a war zone than a medical facility.  Dr. Arabia Mollette said, “Covid-19 has turned the Brooklyn-based hospital into "a war zone." "A medical war zone. Every day I come, what I see on a daily basis, is pain, despair, suffering.” Not only does NYC not have enough hospital beds, equipment, and supplies… Most scary they are overwhelmingly short-staffed.  Being so short-staffed means they are forced to work around the clock on very little sleep or time to even eat. To make matters worse, the amount of patients with the virus is only surging more and more while the available medical staff is less and less due to many of them getting sick as well.   This leaves the hospitals already dangerously overwhelmed staff even more short-handed. “I certainly have not seen anything like this so far in my career,” said Dr. Daniel Fein, a respiratory specialist at Montefiore Medical Center “The anxiety and stress that I think all of us in society are feeling right now – we are feeling it all the more so in the hospital,” Dr. Joseph Habboush, an emergency room doctor at New York University Langone Medical Center told the Associated Press this week. “How can we deal with the idea that this is going to be worse and worse before it gets better?” Dr. Mary O’Brien, a primary care doctor at Columbia University said, “In general, the hospitals in New York City run close to capacity,” under normal circumstances, she said. “Most of them are close to 90% capacity, especially for the critical care units,” she said. That makes the additional Covid-19 cases a “huge influx” NYC is Filled With Battle-Weary Hospital Teams. Exhausted, Overwhelmed, Scared, Out of Critical Supplies, And Forced To Be Away From Their Families... This is the reality for many hospitals across New York City as we speak… Thousands of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel are trapped working around the clock trying to treat the never-ending stream of infected patients. They face grueling conditions, impossibly long work hours, and the constant haunting fear of contracting the virus themselves.  With medical personnel working around the clock, at some hospitals, the only sleep they can get some days is at the actual hospital on the rare times they can grab a short break during their marathon 18-hour shifts. Also, there is almost no time during the day for them to stop and eat.  On top of being exhausted and hungry, constantly exposing themselves to potential death, and watching patients die all day long, they have the added psychological torture of being scared they might bring home the virus and expose their families. <iframe media_type="0" media_id="c5bS4lPnJdg" class="youtube-replace" title="YouTube video player" style="margin-bottom:20px;width:560px;height:315px;" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/c5bS4lPnJdg/?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="1"></iframe> To protect their families, many are self quarantining after work or paying for a hotel room out of their own pocket.  So, not only are they on the front line of this terrifying situation, exhausted, watching people suffer and die every day, but they also can’t even be with loved ones at the end of the day for some much-needed love and support.   Lab technician Andrei Legoun, said he has spent the last two months away from his family and has avoided seeing anyone face-to-face -- even his daughter and girlfriend. "In case I'm a carrier for some reason, I don't want to pass it along to them," he said.  Doctor Mollette also hasn't seen her family in months and sleeps in a separate bedroom from her fiancé to protect him. "I'm going to be honest with you: I don't really sleep that well at night," Mollette said. "I'm worried about my family, I worry about my safety. I worry about my colleagues. I worry about how the shift is going to be the next time I come. I worry about if a family member is going to come and be patient as well."   For Plasencia, protecting fellow hospital employees -- particularly residents and interns -- is of equal importance, as they collectively continue to work on the frontlines of the crisis. "We are trying to sustain morale," she said. "And certainly in this outbreak we are providing emotional support for each other, but it's a very difficult time for health care." “We are scared too.  We are fighting for your lives and we are fighting for our own lives. We are trying to keep our heads above water and not drown. We need prayer and we need support. We need psychological support as well. It's not easy coming here when you know what you're getting ready to face."   -An NYC ER Doctor  So How Can We Help? <img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/47774288_1588282932548641_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" alt="47774288_1588282932548641_r.jpeg" /> V Shred has partnered with NYC Health + Hospitals to support the nearly 42,000 health care professionals working within their system of 70 patient care locations throughout New York City, where they are working to care for all patients regardless of their ability to pay. In this most trying time, we are seeking to help those that are selflessly caring for the sick and infirmed. The donations that are collected from this campaign will go towards these services and support to doctors, nurses and other health care workers on the front lines: -Meals. For hospital staff that are working without breaks to eat. -Prepackaged groceries, as there is no time to grocery shop between extended shifts. -Hotel rooms. For staff that are directly caring for COVID-19 patients and don’t want to go home and risk exposure to their families.  -Laundry service, as there is no time to clean work clothes and scrubs. -Scrubs, to ensure staff does not need to wear soiled clothes from the hospital home.  V Shred is donating the first $10,000 of the $100,000 goal to support the health care professionals of NYC Health + Hospital. Please support this noble and worthwhile cause if you are able, and let us do what we can to aid those that are giving their all to stem this once-in-a-generation crisis. Thank you and stay safe and healthy. Your donation today - no matter how big or small - can help us to provide all of this to our brave doctors and nurses on the frontlines in New York. I know times are tough... But imagine how much a simple donation could help. Your donation could help a nurse to finally have a clean mask to wear when he or she is saving patient's lives. Or it could provide a doctor with a hotel room to sleep in so they don't have to worry about infecting their kids. These doctors and nurses are sacrificing so much for us. And we believe we need to step up and help them. Which is why I'm asking you to donate today. Whether you can give $1, $10, $50, $100 or even $500... Anything you can chip-in will help. By helping these doctors and nurses, you're helping to save the lives of everyday Americans like your mother, or your grandfather. To donate, simply click the yellow “Donate Now” button and enter the amount you want to donate. Thank you for your support, -Team V Shred <img src="https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/47774288_1588282972249571_r.jpeg" width="100%" media_type="3" alt="47774288_1588282972249571_r.jpeg" />

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