April 2nd.

The Road I See you nurses Jamie Eaton's and Ryan Ward on a whirlwind road trip from their home in Oklahoma to New York City after responding to an online posting for crisis travel.

Nurses.

There the arches passing up.

ST Louis.

We're six hours into the drive.

I feel like it's our responsibility to step up and do what we've been trained to do and what we've known and felt like was our calling to D'Oh!

Jamie and Ryan.

Part of a growing way.

Nurses by the hundreds who will work 12 hour shifts for 21 straight days.

They're helping hands desperately needed in New York City, where they're more dead from covert 19 than from the 9 11 terror attacks.

I am asking health care professionals across the country.

If you don't have a health care crisis in your community, please come help us in New York.

Now we need relief.

Governor Cuomo temporarily suspending New York state license requirements, paving the way from licensed doctors and nurses from around the country to respond to that S.

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S from Alabama.

I'm currently in New York City helping with the Copa 19 crisis went through the nights of the full from Atlanta to New York to help fight the crisis.

Staffing agencies financially incentivize this work paying so called crisis rates.

They're typically much higher than regular rates, ranging from about $4000 to us, much as $10,000 per week.

That financial incentive, I think, is obviously a big part of what got us here initially.

But over the course of this trip and getting here, we've seen in ourselves kind of ah, spiritually shift, if you will.

This isn't gonna end in New York.

This is gonna be in our backyard at home.

And I would hope that some nurses would take a step away from their families for a second income.

Help us if we needed it.

The couple learns they'll both be on the overnight shifts and working in intensive care units.

But they'll be separated.

Ryan assigned to a hospital in Manhattan, Jamie toe one in Brooklyn to our respective units and hospitals, ready to get to work out A patient's going into.

But you should really know.

Here's a few days into their work.

Reality starts to sink in.

It is that They are absolutely overloaded.

Patients are incredibly sick.

Everyone's vented.

Everybody's cove it.

It's all the things that you would absolutely expect.

The nurses there there there were overworked.

They're having a hard time, and they've been doing this for weeks.

We can't build a nurse.

We can't build a doctor out of thin air, so you have to get them here.

Critical care nurse look Adam's drove from Pennsylvania to Staten Island last month, committing to a 13 week deployment.

Reality start to set in like a Day six to save money.

He slept on this baby mattress in the back of his rental SUV for more than a week.

It's not specially is cold tonight.

It is good.

After two days of on boarding at the hospital, Luke hit the ground running.

I'm helping to manage the 16 patients.

It's a lot.

It's a lot more than obviously I'm used to Back in the old world.

What was the average load like?

You're usually a 2 to 1 ratio, So having 16 of those critically ill patients on ventilators and being responsible for all the medications that they're getting to toe one is one thing but 16 to 1 sounds impossible.

I would have agreed with you, and so I started doing it.

It's not just me, you know.

There are other nurses that were there.

But through all the chaos and despair, look finds great solace in all the victories to people that I took care of on my first day over two weeks ago.

Now they had already been there when I got there, and yesterday, as I was leaving the hospital there, they were still in the same rooms.

But now they're off the ventilator and the success stories are starting to happen.

I cannot begin to describe how much that makes a difference, because for two straight weeks it felt like we were losing, have showered and I'm getting ready for bed.

He's even in a hotel now, after the city found him free housing feels good.

That felt amazing.

But even the comforts of a pillow with a nice mattress are no match for home.

His baby daughter and eight year old son hundreds of miles away.

I know that you want your example to be a teachable moment for your Children.

What do you want them to take from what you're doing?

Right now, every emergency calls on a different service, and the skills that I've honed over the last 11 years were suddenly in need.

If you have the ability, you have the responsibility, and that's that's what I want my kids to know.

What do you think you're right now?

Where did you go home seeing them again, especially my son.

Maybe he's watching.

If he is, what might you say?

You know, this will pass and I will be home.

So there's no need to worry.

I know that this was difficult, but the three months that I'm gone would have paled in comparison to how I would have felt if I didn't come and help the Iand reinforcements from the outside.

Like Luke, many hospitals air transitioning staff out of their specialty areas.

Toe Fight Cove, it 19 Before Corona virus Dr William Levin spent his days operating on shoulders and elbows.

It's one of the top orthopaedic surgeons in New York City.

Now, he and one of his residents, Dr Lin and Forrester, are teamed up, pulling 12 hour shifts in the emergency room, treating patients with covert 19.

We have all these I see you beds that never existed on all these patients that are filling those beds who are ventilated, they're sick, and they need care that our emergency room teams and our regular ice you teams cannot cover by themselves just can't do it.

Sounds like you went from being an orthopedic surgeon to a medical Marine.

We basically that's exactly we were.

I was doing stuff that I haven't done in 25 years.

Dr.

Levin is just one of 2000 doctors the New York Presbyterian Hospital system who've been redeployed to the front lines fight against Kobe.

19.

When was the last time you cried?

I've cried war in the last a couple of weeks than I have in the last couple of years.

Probably if I'm honest.

I think the weight off this whole experience, it catches up with you.

How long can people stand up to do what you and your colleagues were having to do?

We still have 2400 in patients in the New York Presbyterian System Cove it positive.

So we still got our way, got a lot of work to do on a lot of help to get us past this.

This point you have had 2000 doctors volunteer to be redeployed, and we haven't had a twist anybody's arm.

I mean, the the level of commitment has just been extraordinary, Everyone rising to the occasion.

The outpouring of selflessness is really extraordinary, and it's a really spirit.

It's the American spirit.

It's the New York spirit.

It's a can do attitude.

It's been said adversity doesn't build character.

It reveals every night at seven, medical professionals have their shift change.

New Yorkers show their character.

The city stops applause.

Iraq, 19 may have left many across New York in America helpless but not hopeless.

I didn't expect that For Jamie and Ryan, New York City is not their home, but now forever.

It is in their hearts.

Well, that was amazing.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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