(3 Aug 2021)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Osage Beach, Missouri - 26 July 2021
1. Wide shot of Chris Murphy in ICU
2. Close of medical equipment
3. Medium of Murphy and another provider outside hospital room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Murphy, Registered Nurse, Lake Regional Health:
"Being from the military, you have to have a switch. Shut one off, turn one on. Come to work, turn it off, go home. If you're not trained in resiliency, it's hard."
5. Various of Murphy inside patient room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Murphy, Registered Nurse, Lake Regional Health:
"It's devastating people and families. And you should take precautions."
7. Various of Murphy inside patient's room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Harbaksh Sangha, Chief Medical Officer, Lake Regional Health:
"People are burning out. Burnout is very real."
9. Various of ICU
10. Dr. Harbaksh Sangha donning PPE
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Harbaksh Sangha, Chief Medical Officer, Lake Regional Health:
"It's a 12 to 14 hour day, every day."
Reporter: "How do you handle that?"
Sangha: "Not well but we don't have a choice."
12. Various inside ICU
STORYLINE:
Chris Murphy spends most days covered head to toe in uncomfortable PPE.
He bounces back and forth between patient rooms inside Lake Regional Hospital's intensive care unit in Osage Beach, Missouri where many beds are filled with COVID positive patients struggling to catch their breaths.
Since the beginning of June, hospitalizations have more than doubled across the state.
The surge has further stressed healthcare providers who were already struggling to keep their heads above water throughout the pandemic.
The days are long for Murphy but he survives by tapping into skills he learned while serving as a Combat Medic in the U.S. Army.
"Being from the military, you have to have a switch. Shut one off, turn one on. Come to work, turn it off, go home. If you're not trained in resiliency, it's hard," Murphy told The Associated Press.
Murphy says the 13 months he spent deployed to Iraq also prepared him for the stress and sadness he sees on a daily basis inside the ICU.
The patients coming into Lake Regional are sicker and younger. 50 percent of the people admitted with COVID-19 are under age 59.
"It's devastating people and families. And you should take precautions," Murphy said.
Dr. Harbaksh Sangha, Lake Regional's Chief Medical Officer, averages 12 to 14 hour days tending to COVID positive patients.
"It is very disheartening as a healthcare provider seeing so much morbidity and mortality. People are burning out. Burnout is very real," he said.
Sangha admits it's disappointing to see most of of his patients having chosen not to be vaccinated prior to their diagnosis.
As the delta variant continues to spread, he isn't hopeful relief will come for his staff anytime soon but they'll keep working regardless. "We don't have a choice."
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