'Invisible Wounds': Frontline Health Workers Face Recovery Period That Could Last Months

Karen Clemmer 6/22/209:49 PM

By Carey Goldberg, June 22, 2020, WBUR.

Dr. Molly Hayes says she doesn’t feel exhausted.

"Honestly, I don’t feel physically tired," she says, "but it just feels like sort of a let-down."

As director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Hayes worked nearly nonstop through the thick of the COVID-19 outbreak. Now, she says, she’s not depressed, but "it feels weird. For three months we were all systems go almost 24 hours a day. And then it just felt like one day you woke up and... there were no texts. And you didn’t hear from anyone.

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