zReportage.com Story of the Week #745: TUESDAY July 14, 2020: NIGHT SHIFT COVID19 ICU, by ZUMA Press Newspaper San Antonio Express-News’s 2015 Pulitzer finalist and recently named 2020 Star Photojournalist of the Year by the Headliners Foundation of Texas, Bob Owen and health and medicine reporter Lauren Caruba recent winner of the the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, together they work on special projects. In this zReportage they spent 18 hours in a Texas COVID-19 ICU ward. Alarms were blaring in the COVID-19 intensive care unit. A patient suddenly had awakened in the dark. A breathing tube was threaded down her throat. It was a few minutes before 1 a.m., and her sedatives had worn off. In her room, behind a wall of windows and a closed glass door, she twisted against the wrist restraint that kept her from dislodging the tube. She bit down on the tube and tried to lift her arm. If she pulled out the tube, she could die. Welcome to: Night Shift COVID-19 ICU
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