//“It was like trench warfare”: Upstate director of COVID-19 ICU reflects on year battling pandemic

“It was like trench warfare”: Upstate director of COVID-19 ICU reflects on year battling pandemic

It has been one year and two days since AnMed Health in Anderson County admitted its first COVID-19 patient to the coronavirus intensive care unit. Since then, staff says it has been a physically, mentally and emotionally draining 12 months. “It’s like we were in trench warfare,” said Director of the AnMed Health COVID-19 ICU Dr. Syed Malik. “We were all in the trenches. At