Exhaustion and purpose in the COVID unit: A look inside at Beaumont as caregivers, patients work through reverberations of the surge.

Dr. Matthew Sims, infections disease doctor Dr. Matthew Sims, as Beaumont's director of infectious disease research, typically sees patients seven or eight weeks out of every six months as part of the infectious disease group. Brett Todd, ER doctor Brett Todd, an ER staff physician at Beaumont Royal Oak and Troy, said the past two weeks the flow of patients has slowed for COVID-19 patients and picked up for traditional emergency injuries. At its peak, eight-hospital Beaumont Health had 1,217 patients admitted at one time during the first surge in April 2020, the most of any system in the state. [Extracted from the article]