It's Friday. Again, we made it another week.

And since last Friday, we've been watching as you all have filled up our pandemic toolkit

spreadsheet. It's full of solutions for staying at home with kids or by yourself as it feels

like everything is falling apart. And it's helping me at least feel connected while we're

distancing. But of course,

not everyone can stay home. This week, we got an email from a nurse named Mary. She works at a small

hospital in rural upstate New York, and things are changing there rapidly. My 180-bed hospital

in Central New York State has been mandated by the state to increase its capacity by 50 percent to care for a number of patients, the magnitude of which we really don't know.

So my hospital looks like a ghost town.

Actual floors are closed.

Visitors are prohibited.

And for right now, it feels like primarily a fear of the unknown.

I'm afraid of getting into a situation where the halls are filled with people who can't get care

and the immense suffering that that would create.

Mary told us that pandemic toolkit you made, not so helpful for those of us still going to work.

I'm looking forward to a show about the toolbox for the health care professional.

I think in that toolbox, instead of beautiful books to read and lovely recipes to cook while I'm socially distancing, that toolbox

is going to be full of personal protective equipment, masks that I can use when I take care of a COVID-19 patient,

gloves, unlimited supply of gloves and gowns.

I'd like to know how my nurse colleagues are managing through this crisis,

especially those nurses who are giving direct bedside care

to critically ill patients.

...