Miami ICU nurse: I have never in my life seen so many deaths Every breath is a struggleFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them -- the last gasps of 17 men and women who died of the coronavirus. A 41-year-old ICU nurse in Miami’s Kendall Regional Medical Center, Ruiz has witnessed the desperate, pleading, wide-eyed, barely there gasps. “We know he’s not going to make it.”The hardest part is watching them die alone. “I have never seen in my life so many deaths, in a week or a month,” he says.

Source: ABC News August 22, 2020 10:30 UTC