Just catching up on this thread. I retired from a regional hospital (if it can be done we got it). Spent a good amount of time in and around isolation rooms and ICU departments. People hanging onto life and some not making it. My buddy there took over my job making sure the building controls make sure the infected air does spread outside the patient rooms. Other times we have cancer patients who have gone through kemo to kill the cancer but in the process they lost the body's defenses against infection. A cold could kill them so in that case rather than having a negative pressure room you have a positive pressure one, it blows viruses and the like out so the person does not get infected.
Seen all kinds in the beds, from the elderly to kids two years old. neonatal is a different story, my first days were in a container of sorts with people working to keep me alive. Thankfully it worked. I hate the call of code red in the delivery room. One day the room blasted heat when they were trying to keep a newborn alive. Hard to figure things out with 6-7 people working to save a newborn. Been in operating rooms for problems also, been in the morgue, autopsy rooms, the staff do try to shield us from the gory stuff though. So I have seen life in different phases in a hospital.
Life can be tenuous. Real people have there lives turned around there, people lose loved ones. For the staff of the hospital I tried to always have something for them to laugh at, did the same for patients if I could. Other times I tried to do my work (if there was no other choice than to do it then) in the background as some people were in their most vulnerable and deserved as much privacy as possible.
So while it may just be numbers to us out here, where the rubber hit the road in a hospital it is not fun and games all the time. I have told stupid people on other sites what is really happening and they believe it is fake news. They just want to stay ignorant. Until it is them or their loved one lying there. Sometimes I watch a movie band I cry. It is only make belief but I have seen the real thing. And it hurts. I feel sorry for the patients and their families but I also feel sorry for the doctors and nurses. This effects them, having their patients slip away on them. Seeing the families broken.
I wish some of you would grow up.