To the Editor:

Re “Life and Death in the ‘Hot Zone’” (column, April 12):

It was encouraging to see Nicholas Kristof and a video journalist enter the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. The video with his column captured the horrors of what my colleagues and I see every day. We tell Americans to stay at home because we see our patients gasping for air. We see the intubations. We see mothers and fathers dying alone.

People outside hospitals do not see this. While they may read about it, humans are visual creatures. Words can lie, but it is harder to ignore a video of someone getting intubated. We can tell you that we are scared, but you may not believe us until you see the terrified looks on our faces. This is why videos can be powerful.

Now is the time to welcome more video journalists into the trenches, so Americans can see for themselves the damage Covid-19 is doing.

Shahdabul Faraz

Boston

The writer is a resident physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

To the Editor:

How dare President Trump further endanger our daughter. She is an experienced I.C.U. nurse in an upstate New York hospital. She works 12-hour shifts, willingly, to take care of the growing number of Covid-19 patients.