'You’re Always Thinking About COVID,' Stress On EMTs Increases During Pandemic

MEDFORD, MA — Frontline workers are now in their ninth month battling the COVID-19 pandemic. For Emergency Medical Technicians coronavirus has introduced a new kind of uncertainty to their jobs.

“You’re always thinking about COVID,” paramedic Victor Markaze told WBZ-TV. “You don’t know who’s sick and who’s not sick anymore, so now everyone is being treated as sick.”

It’s an unprecedented time for Markaze and EMTs with Armstrong Ambulance whose job it is to answer the call.

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