Now, the thing about the ICU is it's like you're visiting your execution, but every time

you gown up and you go in there and you're examining these patients or you're doing a procedure

on these patients, you're looking at your potential fate, which is really ugly.

Dr. Nick Bullis is a friend of mine.

We trained together as neurosurgeons and we now work together at Emory University School

of Medicine.

Recently, Nick volunteered for several shifts on Emory's COVID-19 intensive care unit.

I asked him to record some of his thoughts and his observations from the experience.

Just in there talking with my patient who's a COVID nurse who was infected and she's

coughing, I'm just, I can just see the cloud of virus coming out of her mouth.

So that's the first time I've actually felt scared.

Typically as doctors, even when we're taking care of the sickest patients, we're not at

risk ourselves from getting sick or even dying.

I can tell you as a neurosurgeon myself, the type of work that Nick was doing in that

COVID-19 ICU was very different from what he normally does.

And on top of that, as of Saturday, cases of coronavirus have been increasing in 18 states.

For today, I wanted to take a moment and look again at where the critical work is being

done to fight this virus that is now projected to take 200,000 lives by October.

I wanted to share Nick's experience because it is a stark reminder that this pandemic is

far from over.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent and this is coronavirus, fact,

versus fiction.

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