For well over a year, respiratory therapist Le My Hanh has worked in close contact with acutely infected COVID-19 patients. Though her tasks require routinely direct contact with patients’ bodily fluids, she has never experienced infection.
At The Start Of The Pandemic
In Cincinnati, Ohio, Le works at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center as a respiratory therapist. She assists various departments such as the emergency room, the intensive-care unit, post-op care, and the otolaryngology unit. For patients connected to respirators, respiratory therapists assist the doctors doing intubations and then maintain the patients on ventilators.When cases of COVID-19 popped up in major U.S. cities, around February or March 2020, the hospital started to change.
