‘You hear the cries’: Virus toll haunts a New York paramedic
NEW YORK (AP) — Elizabeth Bonilla pulls her ambulance up to a set of Bronx row houses. Another ambulance and a fire truck are already there, their flashing lights painting the dark streets an eerie shade of orange. Neighbors gather on their stoops to watch. Some sip wine.
“We gotta gown up,” she says as she climbs out of the vehicle. This call is a suspected COVID-19 case, which means she needs gloves, masks and a full-body plastic smock.
An empty gurney waits by the front steps while four EMS workers, Bonilla included, rush upstairs.