我是一名美国护士。我在新冠疫情期间一直在一线急诊室工作。

我将告诉你我亲眼所见。不是新闻上说的。不是机构说的。我在工作过的医院里亲眼看到的。

你被告知的那个故事和我们经历的那个故事是两个完全不同的故事。

医院是空的。

空的急诊分诊。空的病房。整个楼层关闭。护士们被安排回家，工作时间减少。那些护士穿着防护装备跳舞的不当TikTok视频就是在那几周出现的，因为当时无事可做。

例外的是城市中心——纽约、洛杉矶的部分地区等——那里人们生活拥挤，呼吸道疾病传播迅速。

美国其他地方就像一个鬼城，却被拍成战区的样子。

I am an American nurse. I worked the ER through COVID.

I am going to tell you what I saw. Not what the news said. Not what the agencies said. What I saw with my own eyes, in the hospitals where I worked.

The story you were told and the story we lived were two different stories.

The hospitals were empty.

Empty triage. Empty units. Whole floors closed. Nurses sent home with reduced hours. The inappropriate TikTok videos of nurses dancing in PPE came out of those weeks because there was nothing else to do.

The exception were the urban centers — New York, parts of LA etc— where people live stacked and respiratory illness moves fast.

The rest of the country was a ghost town being filmed as a war zone.