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what we're doing right now to take care of our pollution because a woman she was the most important right now that all the fish that we need most important right now that. all the fish that we need fishing has long been seen as the solution to the country's problems the government says it wants filipino fisherman to be able to compete fairly with those from other countries but those who work here say the government does often resorted to imports in the past and these remain a stop gap solution jim ellis island dog al-jazeera that's profits in the northern philippines. go with al-jazeera these are top stories u.s. president joe biden has announced sweeping measures to tackle the coronavirus pandemic thank you and the expansion of his mall squaring mandate to include
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efforts and some public transport international travelers will also be required to quarantine when they're arriving in the u.s. we get to dismiss overnight it's going to take months 1st to turn things around but let me be equally clear we will get through this we will defeat is pandemic and to a nation waiting for action let me be the clearest on this point help is on the way today today i would be only the national strategy on covert 90 and executive actions to be to spend. to panel has denied reports says considering counseling the take pics the games have already been delayed by a year and now a state of emergency is in place in the capital because a record number of covert cases the times newspaper says the government has privately concluded the games would need to be called off. i sill has claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the iraqi capital 32 people have been
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killed more than 100 injured iraq's prime minister reshuffled several top security officials following the attack the worst in 3 is the top republican in the u.s. senate former president donald trump's impeachment to be delayed until mid february mitch mcconnell said this would give trump 2 weeks to prepare once the charges presented trump was impeached just days before the end of his term accusing accused of inciting a riot at capitol hill that left 5 dead. a 15 day states of emergency has sauces in central african republic in the attempt to stop rebel attacks and the alliance of armed groups that is the coalition of patriots for change is trying to get rid of president. the un envoy to the country is calling for a substantial increase in peacekeeping operations. those are your headlines in other news updates here on al-jazeera after witness. al jazeera is an investigative
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team and the team censored and unseen video from all harm filmed as the coronavirus are great is just beginning. even though all the oceans of the facts are coming back. exposing this secrecy and censorship by chinese authorities. ha ha ha i'm done health system struggling to cope i'll just leave the investigation 3 daves that stop the world. sell my names to brady i am a pulmonary and critical care physician i. was born and raised in
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new york city. in a life long as an. attorney as long stretch. were in the i.c.u. . or weak st in and happens it coincided with the emergence of corona virus in boston. and it's something that i think. raises a lot of. certainty in thier minds in fact this is. just. there are so many unknowns we don't know how bad it's going to be. it's march 20th about 1 am up in clear lake california it was another calm day
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today for patient volumes have been very low and the fuel is just great we are running a little bit later on. in years so and was unable to find an adult mask but i've got this pretty sweet kids master we're going out the best fitted. to get the job done. i'm sure i am and the our physician and i work at a couple community hospitals just outside boston most of full time student right now i'm getting my m.b.a. from mit and so what that really means is that i'm in classes monday to thursday especially during the week and i work on the weekends. and so. things have been
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pretty crazy the last few weeks and i'm fortunate that i have these breaks in between my shifts and my next step just tomorrow and so. it's really hard to know what to expect. if it works and in her looks like a small lunch box and has my name and. my name on it and this is my and they described that i'm going to be using the entire. at least the entire week maybe longer. i was doing a lot of research say try to find out if there are specific guidelines and of course because it's a pretty new virus there are a whole lot of published guidelines available so it's if you do what you think is
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best. and healthily i did what's best for my patients interestingly enough and test a single person today for code even though about half the patients i saw definitely had it and that's because our low on tests and none of them were hired admission or admit are met the criteria that we look for it's march 30th about midnight you know and i just had my 1st doubtful likely from coated super sad story it was a 65 year old male who was walking and talking earlier tonight but had been complaining of some shortness of breath recently with the new visitor policies in the hospital it's really really difficult. you have to go to family and say your loved one has just died but you cannot visit them right now i think but. as things ramp up it's going to have
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a much different much crazier. that's will change and it's going to feel much different the emergency room. i think we sort of compartmentalize and shut off the terribleness of it and connect just enough you know to to have. empathy one when talking to the families and i think. you know if you really took every case and every death would go hard it would be impossible to do the job that we do. so i think that's like a coping mechanism and i think it there's an appropriate balance of. being in touch with your emotions but not too much that you're. crying over every patient hit.
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but every one toddler's like a patient will touch you and you don't know why maybe you like the family maybe the patients has reminded you of your dad or. whatever it is it does like also and connect to your core and you feel this surge of emotion and this lump in your throat and the water in your eyes and you're like i'll have to turn this off. here in new york might be getting all of that but they're saying. this is my mom all in time she was in new york city and i go down once a month to see erin i haven't been able to see her. it's always hard you're always there during get over how sick. my car broke down on sunday and i call aaa and aaa says you know have you. been in contact with somebody who now has cars houses like.
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no. because i knew going to sleep was the doctor. it was my car so it's saturday april 4th just finished. and. volumes are still very low in the emergency room across the multiple sites that i work at in the bay area so another interesting development. i'm going to try to go to new york city to see if i can get locums draw up i think but this time is emergency medicines spotlights. and. kind of a shame to not see what. is going on in new york city.
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where i am feeling very fortunate that i am not full time anymore i can see my colleagues just really drained and everyone's very aggravated with the whole shift changes because we are not working as much as our knocking pain and the patients and yes there are some of the whole thing is just really crazy nurses are really not happy with the short staffed providers because sick patients are waiting for a lot of time even though we have enough people all theory and theoretically just the doctors home early and the whole thing is just crazy. trying to cut back on our hours because i guess more expensive and they're not. making any money off of the elective surgeries that i feel like today was busy her car less.
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icing on our initial drive ahead of me thankfully there is no traffic i guess that's one of the most. the things i can think of in this entire situation. there. has been a chef and i think everything off. for. us that night. coffee right now. so i just finished a night shift. that's a lot watch really long lunch. and see. that. it ended with a terrible death so it's always like this so for. every patient
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is you know global climate year olds blah blah share with respiratory failure from various. it just can be a little bit. monotonous today we had a patient come in who was interested in the emergency room and i was putting in a central line or no. real artery line in her wrist and while i was doing it the nurse was going through her belongings and came across a sandwich in her bag. there very long it's like this woman walked into the emergency room. i may have to wait a while so i should get a sandwich and got a sandwich and now is on life support without family around her because
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we're not allowing families in. i look at her and like saw her as a person instead of just a patient coronavirus. monday april 13th 0930 at night and i just got home 2 weeks ago i was and i was like oh now then my patients have gotten better and that this is a long haul to recovery and i look back last night at those patients i said i think i signed up 10 people it's not. a. son or so i have. got that or there's just my aunt sally security.
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act. their rights are going to have a little bit longer of an update of where i am how i got here and what's been going on cerro i'm currently working in a qubit unit it's in the washington heights neighborhood of manhattan this year that was set up about 2 weeks ago it's set up. not in the main hospital we're currently in the lobby of the hospital i'm not sure if the hospitals in california are doing quite as openly but we were addressing family members up with the a 95 and p.p. and got them to come and visit which which
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is incredibly necessary. i was we all we have i pads next to all the beds so patients can face time if they don't have their own fountains. i definitely feel a little bit nervous that contract encourage it but who knows i might have been positive at some point in the past i might have been through it i don't now. i'm generally much more careful now. i've been very good at putting on a mask and not touching it while it's on and. i think i yeah. it's definitely when somebody touches their face i think i touch my face earlier in this video but it's definitely i notice that
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i really wanted to see more and understand coded it's a fascinating fascinating illness and i've only been. in the past few days getting to understand a little bit. understanding how it's changing our practice of medicine. or thought on. this is the rose he is my esteemed colleague. after the theme various themes are. very very exciting news to share today april 19th. i aks debated. which is awesome is awesome
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i have been working in late into hulk armed services for weeks and weeks and weeks and had an estimated. 6 page and i. use today which was really and i call 1st ring do you remember picks up so if you go k. . at early updated them they were expecting another phone call and they said news x to be dead and you know great. and they're like genuine joint on the other end of the line and the like oh this is the best news i've heard in weeks thank you thank you yeah that really can they get enough sleep until you will is just felt really good to deliver that newness.
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and your patients are paying for their lives and we're fighting for them but these members are home eileen crane do everything he can to winnow their luck there and you can just hear the relief on the other end of the psalms. now felt great. high if both 32000 and. i have my next shift tomorrow on friday. but i just found out that it smashed at this hospital which is also the i've been where him for 4 years just found out that they're cutting all over show
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us because there is not enough volume to the pandemic and they can't give me any more shifts for an indefinite time. i'm in a bit of a disbelief i'm really upset about it and just thankful that i have another hospital that i work at i have although i'm sure i'm to hear from them a minute that they're canceling my shifts as well next week. i just can't believe that a time when we have we're in the middle of the biggest health crisis for a generation and me as an e.r. doctor has suddenly left in a position where i don't have a job and worried about my rant. i mean m.p.'s are more fortunate than the people in terms of my training in terms of you know what i do but right now i don't feel that way may have to move to
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a smaller place like it for it you know when i'm going to get more shifts of this hospital again maybe i can offer another job. i did love this place. can't leave that to mars and ross day it's heartbreaking. but yes especially times for everybody. i had a couple that. you know i was off today as a kid my patients died. one was pretty young she's under 50 is. and. i resin called the sun to come be with her so i'm always on max. dose of this high flow
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oxygen the her son was waiting outside the grounds carrying to the window. looking like the last moments of his mom. and. she wanted to be with him and. so she asked if you take the oxygen off. and we explained that. you know if you take the oxygen off. you know. she'll die you'll die but also my feeling comfortable. and she chose to take it off and her son when. she passed away it pretty nearly. innate i guess it's good she and i have one. so in the past few days
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i've got to walk around the hospital and visit some things and i visit the operating rooms which have turned into intensive care units and this is one of the cruises things that i've seen each operating room contains $3.00 to $4.00 ventilated patients so an operating room generally is not meant for any more than one patient and to see $3.00 to $4.00 patients and each one of. it was pretty wild also in my 2 weeks here we've only treated one. caucasian patient i think more than half of our population a spanish speaking. i think bikers to speak how much of this disease burdens. the multigenerational households and the poorer
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populations in manhattan and where we are you know and burdens the people that cannot socially distance burdens the people that are unable to work from home. i thanks for tuning in and it's may 8th 2020. to start off with i'll say that i had to file for unemployment. yesterday did that it was just crazy never even considered that as being a possibility in my career as an emergency room physician that's the one that we joke about we say job security when somebody does anything stupid because the radically that's true it's just really interesting because i've devoted so much of my time to helping to educate patients and to understanding when they need to come to the emergency room when they don't and i pride myself on i focus a lot i mean i'm proud that i have retained
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a lot of that from my training in canada and. in one week that has been turned upside down and now i'm realizing that i get paid by those people i get paid by the people who don't need to be in the emergency room. i get paid by the people who have a sore throat for months people who come in cause they want privacy those people pay me. figure is that today is thursday may 14th i'd like are really few days and i feel like a culmination of an ordinary net but it's still ongoing so i am feeling. really really burned out. feeling tired. today is monday
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me eat team work was insane at friday and i was absolutely nuts 1234 hour day is thursday june when i. think i've probably put in hours a reprieve the past 2 weeks and no wonder it was 3 but to wait about a hour supergroup for. i want my job in emergency medicine and i mean well to come out and about where i be able to. grieve for. my family is healthy. june 7th. it is like night in. the kitchen who got really really sick when really. felt like she was going to die she did foreign
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ministers are going to. be talking about her experience and. told her that she was going to be. put into a coma and put her daughter on the. they're not really going to see. some many of the women's lives so many. wrens been heard so many deaths so many awful deaths the ones easier number those people and kind of still. carry went through this battle this war but. they are survivors. are still litter losses are so great but then there were business during those years and she looks great she was awesome here i. swear to.
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