POYNTER – 30/03/2020
Kristen Hare
“Arlene Van Dyk doesn’t know if her patients can hear her,” Lindy Washburn wrote for northjersey.com and The (Bergen, New Jersey) Record on Friday, March 27. “They are unresponsive, sedated into paralysis so that machines can do the work of their lungs. She speaks to them anyway.” As coronavirus cases double overnight in many places, we’re just starting to learn what it’s like for the professionals caring for people inside hospitals around the country. For lots of reasons — medical privacy, ethics, public health — journalists aren’t inside many hospital rooms right now to show the world what’s happening. But Washburn does that with her reporting and writing. She writes this: