Yale New Haven Hospital nurse Courtney Acker: This has to end.
NEW HAVEN — Well into the second wave of the pandemic, the moment finally arrived: Courtney Acker saw a patient die of coronavirus on her watch.
It happened during a grueling night shift in December, in the midst of a second Covid-19 wave that Acker, a Yale New Haven Hospital nurse, has been finding more exhausting than the last.
“If there’s a third wave,” Acker said, ​“I don’t think people in hospitals will be able to deal with it again. It’s so overwhelming on us and stressful.”
