Mary Ellen Porter was a nurse manager at Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island, New York. I was alerted to her passing from an article posted to the Staten Island Advance (link here). According to the article, she fell ill with reported Coronavirus on 21 March, and she never recovered.
There are still those who do not believe the severity of Covid-19. The numbers, they say, of people dying from heart disease, cancer, smoking, even the common flu far outweigh those dying from Covid-19. Maybe so, for right now. These Coronavirus deaths are happening even while the entire world is staying home. There are draconian measures in place to keep this thing from spreading, yet it still attacks and kills at alarming rates.
A nurse manager does not treat a patient for heart disease, then catch heart disease and end up on a ventilator days later. Or cancer. Even the common flu. This thing is real. People are scared. Heroic healthcare workers keep going back to care for the sick, desperate, and dying. This is New York City today, it could be your city tomorrow.
Thank you, Nurse Mary Ellen for giving humanity the ultimate sacrifice. You will not be forgotten.
You made the world a better place and you will not be forgotten.
Keep these healthcare professionals in your thoughts and prayers and stay home. Stay safe.
Lives could depend on it.
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