Massachusetts | Stress On EMTs Increases During Pandemic
From CBS Boston
‘You’re Always Thinking About COVID,’ Stress On EMTs Increases During Pandemic
MEDFORD (CBS) – Frontline workers are now in their ninth month battling the COVID-19 pandemic. For Emergency Medical Technicians coronavirus has introduced a new kind of uncertainty to their jobs.
“You’re always thinking about COVID,” paramedic Victor Markaze told WBZ-TV. “You don’t know who’s sick and who’s not sick anymore, so now everyone is being treated as sick.”
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