CANON USAさんのインスタグラム写真 - (CANON USAInstagram)「(1/2) "I still remember that day like any other day in the ICU, until it wasn't. A whole group of us received a casual email telling us we’d be part of the team staffing the COVID-19 ICU at our hospital in Chicago. It told us what to do and where to report, but this wasn’t any other email -- this was telling us we’d be working on the front lines of a global pandemic that, at the time, we knew very little about. Walking into the unit that first day was surreal. Typically filled with healthcare workers and visitors, the empty white hallways were like something out of a movie. Doorways were taped off with plastic, the sound of the huge, negative pressure fans whirled and there were signs everywhere warning all not to enter the 8th floor under any circumstances—unless you were us, of course. It’s a very weird feeling, walking into a place that you very well know is dangerous, and even life-threatening, but not fully understanding how that threat operates. We knew we could get the virus at any time, but we didn’t know how we’d react to it. We saw and cared for critically-ill patients and often wondered if we’d be next. Sadly, that ended up being the reality for a couple of my coworkers. Still, we worked a lot in those first couple months, often 80-hour weeks. We all suffered from insomnia, and even when we could manage to fall asleep, nightmares of the hospital bled through."」9月13日 22時40分