Nurses on Life Inside a Downtown Vancouver Hospital

Nurses on Life Inside a Downtown Vancouver Hospital
Registered nurse Zoe Manarangi Bake-Paterson is photographed at St. Paul's hospital in downtown Vancouver B.C., Canada, on April 2, 2020. Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press
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As a registered nurse in the emergency department at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, Zoe Manarangi Bake-Paterson wonders whether she’ll be the same after the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.

There’s palpable stress in the department, she says, as she and her colleagues prepare for a surge of cases that may or may not arrive.