A year and a half into the pandemic that has killed 700,000 people in the U.S., families of COVID-19 patients are asking hospitals to rethink visitor policies, saying they're being denied the right to be with loved ones at a crucial time.
Van Scoy said many of the family members she has interviewed have shown signs of post-traumatic stress disorder. In newspaper op-ed pieces, doctors have shared conversations with patients who declined or postponed crucial treatments because of the visiting restrictions.
Nonetheless, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still recommends against in-person visits for infected patients. Jeremy Starr, a 36-year-old electric utility lineman from Jacksonville, is familiar with such heartbreak. Kirsten Fiest, an associate professor of critical care medicine at the University of Calgary who is studying the effect of isolation on COVID-19 patients, said family members are also caregivers who can lighten the burden of stressed-out health care workers in ICUs.
“It’s heartbreaking for all these families,” Guerra said. “We are going to work, we are going to church, we are going to the store, but we can’t go to the hospital and be with our loved ones?”
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