By Cris Barrish
While hospitalizations have declined of late in the state of Delaware, ChristianaCare’s Wilmington Hospital Covid-19 unit remains a busy place.
At one door stood Raynell Peacock, a respiratory therapist. Peacock was wearing a Powered Air Purifying Respirator, protective headgear that resembles an ice hockey helmet, and a breathing tube that carries air that is purified in a unit contained in his backpack.
Peacock stopped for a few moments before going into the patient’s room.
“It’s strenuous, I guess a little bit nerve-wracking at times,” he said of the daily grind. “Mostly it’s tiring. But you just got to do what you got to do every day. You know, help people out, save lives, go home and do it again the next day.”
Peacock said he’s treated too many patients who have died.
“It’s part of the job, honestly. You really just learn how to cope with it. Hopefully the light’s at the end of the tunnel, hopefully soon.
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