The smell of hand sanitizer and disinfectant fill your nostrils. Everywhere you look, you are surrounded by people in surgical masks.
Constantly, you are inundated with the words sickness and disease, and words synonymous with respiratory distress. For a moment, you’re back in the hospital.
But then you blink and remember that this is 2020. The year the world feels like one giant hospital. For people who have experienced medical trauma such as an extended NICU stay, time in the PICU, time in the ICU, or any other extended stay in the hospital, the separation between their past trauma and the current reality of COVID-19 are harder than ever to distinguish.
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