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On Next COVID-19 Front Line, New York Nurse Tends to Discharged Patients at
Home

Reuters

   Nurse Flora Ajayi parks her car on a residential block in Queens, New
   York and pops open the trunk, revealing plastic bins full of personal
   protective gear. She dons gloves, a blue gown, two masks, a face shield
   and shoe covers and turns to enter the home of one of her COVID-19
   patients.

   Ajayi, 47, works alone on the next front line of the coronavirus
   pandemic. She is part of a network of New York home care nurses
   treating hundreds of patients who have been discharged from hospitals
   and sent home to recover from the respiratory disease caused by the
   novel coronavirus.

   The highly infectious disease has killed at least 20,300 people in the
   state, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States,
   where more people have died than any other country-- at least 49,000,
   according to a Reuters tally.

   Home care nurses have a vital role to play as patients transition from
   around-the-clock care in a hospital to life at home. Ajayi enters and
   exits virus-ridden homes daily, donning and doffing her protective
   equipment up to 12 times a day on curbsides around the city.

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