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My reaction to the news of her death surprised me: I burst into tears. I wasn’t particularly close with Guia, but she was a force to be reckoned with in our ER. She had worked there so long, she had taught some of the older attending physicians how to draw blood and insert peripheral IVs when they were residents at our hospital, decades ago. I texted a friend who also works as a nurse with me, to check in with him. That’s how I found out, weeks ago, that she was intubated and breathing on a ventilator. In fact, much of our staff has been out - some are sick with manageable symptoms and self-quarantining at home, a few are hospitalized. Some of the older nurses have gone on leave, or arranged for retirement. Only Guia was in an intensive care unit, though, and when those of us still healthy and working (or recovered and working) arrived at the hospital for our shift, we would check in with each other. She had been out the past several weeks with a diagnosis of COVID-19. I was driving back to Brooklyn from a New Jersey beach with my partner and our new dog when I got a text from a coworker: “Guia died.” Guia was Maria Guia Cabillon, one of the head nurses for the night shift at the large, Level 1 trauma center emergency room in Brooklyn where I work. This is Mariel's firsthand account of working in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.
After completing nursing school, she began working at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York in 2019. Mariel Boyarsky graduated from the University of Washington in 2015 with a Master of Public Health in Global Health.
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