a doctor imitates the last moments of a patient

Kenneth Remy is an American doctor who takes care of patients in intensive care. To call for respect for barrier gestures, he reveals the last moments of a patient with Covid-19.

Kenneth Remy is a doctor in the intensive care unit at a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Like many caregivers, this American is exhausted by the fight against Covid-19, from being overwhelmed by the number of patients, and seeing many die despite his efforts. To alert the population and call on them to respect barrier gestures, he mimicked the last moments of a coronavirus patient in a video posted on his Facebook account.

"After seeing what I've seen the past few months and week. It's bad. It's really bad. I don't want this for you. Please listen."Kenneth writes alongside his video. In this one, we can see him with a charlotte, a mask, protective glasses and an overcoat. He is placed over his phone, as he would be over a patient, and moves back and forth to mimic the patient's difficult breathing. "This is what it looks like when you breathe 40 times per minute, with an oxygen level well below 80. This is what it will look like. I hope the last moments of your life don't look like this.", he explains, making the gesture of intubating the patient.

"This is what the last moments of your life are going to be like if we don't start wearing masks when we go out in public, if we don't respect social distancing, if we don't wash our hands regularly. Because I promise you. , that's what you're going to see. I promise, that's what your mother, or your father, or your children, if they are sick with Covid-19, will see at the end of their life. This is serious. I beg you, take action to fight against the spread of the virus, so that we can protect you and your loved ones "says Kenneth Remy, with tremolos in his voice.

The goal of this doctor is clear: for the population to protect themselves and others, while he exercises in Missouri, a state of the United States which is experiencing a particularly brutal second wave. Contacted by CNN, Kenneth Remy explained "to have felt the urgent need to make a video which marks the spirits after having announced to a family the death of one of their relatives struck down by the Covid-19". To the BBC, he also recalls that "wear a mask" is much more comfortable than having "a piece of plastic in his respiratory tract" when you are intubated.

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