Kious Kelly was admitted to the hospital on March 17 with the coronavirus after he had been treating patients who are sick with COVID-19, and he died Tuesday.
The registered nurse at Mount Siani West was in his 40s and colleagues described him as compassionate. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.Kious Kelly, a 48-year-old assistant nurse manager at Mount Sinai West, may have been the first NYC nurse to die from the virus. Angry co-workers blame a lack of protective gear.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 26, 2020
"I'm okay. Don't tell Mom and Dad. They'll worry," he wrote to his sister.https://t.co/wiFqWgo69c
😱OMG... Kious Kelly, anursing manager at @MountSinaiNYC had died from #coronavirus.
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) March 26, 2020
Nurses said they were “using the same PPE between infected and non-infected patients and...they took to wearing trash bags to stop the spread of infection.”#COVID19https://t.co/F99TqRX9vn
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