Aaron Milstone says treating a suspected COVID-19 patient gave him a sense of fear he had never felt in his 20 years of offering critical care.

Doctors in one of the hardest-hit areas of Italy offer a glimpse of life in the “trenches,” and how even having a few iPads would help more patients say goodbye to loved ones.

An emergency call center nurse in one of the areas in Italy hardest hit by COVID 19 says they’re awash in an “ocean of sickness, suffering and pain,” but there’s no way they’re giving up. He begs us to listen to their pleas and just stay home.

If you think you can outwit, out-sanitize or underestimate COVID 19, ask yourself: What do I know that the Chinese, Italians, Austrians, South Koreans, Vietnamese…don’t?

I’ve never really liked sharing thoughts or observations on social media. Until I was made to see the wildfire of the pandemic raging at us, by my father (already self-isolating in Italy) and mother (a retired nurse in upstate NY), who begged me to take this seriously. Parents, it seems, still know best.