Nurses have been retraining to work in intensive care units to help treat the sickest COVID-19 patients in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), state officials said on Aug. 31. Liverpool Hospital ICU Manager Michelle Dowd said there was a “call to arms,” and a lot of nurses had been deployed to her. “We’re training theatre nurses and recovery nurses to be ICU nurses,” she told reporters on Aug. 31. “Nurses I’ve worked with for the last 30 years are coming back to intensive care.” “Health professionals really want to help right now,” she added. Dowd said ICU nurses work with a big range of health professionals, including physios, ward orderlies, doctors, and nurses, to care for patients who need constant monitoring. ICU patients require two nurses, whether they are COVID-19 patients or otherwise, she said. COVID-19 is the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Treating COVID-19 …