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While Dianne Washington grieves the loss of her son to COVID-19, her husband lies in the hospital battling the same virus.

She calls on her faith to help her through the terrible ordeal.

Unable to be at her husband’s bedside, she talks to him in video chats. #ICUMiami 🧵
In Episode 2 of Inside the COVID Unit, Dr. Andrew Pastewski, the ICU medical director at @jacksonhealth South, sees his staff demonstrate courage in the face of this terrible disease as he tries to save Dianne Washington’s husband Kenneth. #ICUMiami miamiherald.com/news/coronavir…
@JacksonHealth “The whole hospital from the top down … they’ve all just stepped up significantly," Pastewski says. "I was screaming one day, ‘Why do we have all of the nurses taking care of COVID patients? They’re the highest risk.'"

“They volunteered. How do you say no to that?"
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As an onslaught of patients with the new coronavirus threatened to overwhelm South Florida’s medical system in the Spring of 2020, doctors and nurses at one community hospital in Miami-Dade County did something extraordinary.

They started recording. #ICUMiami 🧵
Inside the COVID Unit: Battling the Coronavirus Pandemic in Miami, a five-part Miami Herald/McClatchy documentary, tells the stories of @JacksonHealth frontline healthcare workers, their patients and their families as the pandemic first hit. trib.al/Q8GUDGh
Through heartbreak and hope, they documented what happened “Inside the COVID Unit” in one small public hospital, as Miami emerged as a national hotspot for infection.

“I never thought there would be a virus this bad. It was always just the movies.” trib.al/DvvlxJ8
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