How We Spend our Time Part 1: My Wife the Superhero

This will be a recurring series throughout our time of quarantine--How We Spend Our Time.

Kicking things off is work, specifically, Amy's work! She is a Family Nurse Practitioner, but her duties changed radically when COVID-19 started rolling. Her clinic has been designated as one of two testing centers for the network of Community Health Care of Snohomish County's clinics, and most of her days are filled with testing people.

She and her colleagues have to wear some pretty intense protective gear, but this is important for keeping all of the health care providers and their support staff healthy.

The clinic screens people before they can even enter

This is the screening station for entering the clinic.

Here is how the staff is dressed for screening. If they determine a patient is a potential COVID-19 patient, they send them back to their cars to wait...

and a provider will go into the clinic to put on the super-duper protective gear

Amy in the full get-up

Patients will either be seen in the parking lot...

...or told to proceed to the covered drive-through testing area

Even editorial cartoonists are in agreement!