Exhausted Texas ICU nurse says she’s scared about an end to the state’s mask mandate
“We’re all pretty exhausted and I’m scared of what this is going to look like,” she said.
Smart said she doesn’t think now is a safe time to take away the mask mandate and called the governor’s move “nerve-racking.”
Covid-19 trends across the US may have been encouraging for a while, but Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky warned earlier this week that recent steep declines in cases now seem to be “leveling off at still very high numbers.”
“It’s not like the Covid patients are gone,” Smart said. “It’s not like they’re not dying. It’s just that we no longer need a refrigerated truck outside, is the deal.”
“We don’t have people in the hallways anymore, stretchers,” she said. “So, breathing is a little bit easier but… it’s not better.”
“My biggest fear is that we’re going to lose more people,” Smart said.
