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now over 200 cases reported and she, an in this outbreak, has spread to at least 5 other cities. and there have been at least one infection noted in beijing. so from thursday midnight authorities have said that the city, a $13000000.00 people will be under strict lockdown. and only one member of the household is allowed to leave the home every 2 days to collect groceries. only certified, essential workers will be allowed to go to work. schools has been closed for some days, no entertainment than use have been closed. long distance transport that's buses, trains flights, have all been cancelled, and the city is currently conducting mass testing authority say they're already up to the 3rd round of mass testing. the u. k. has reported more than a $100000.00 daily corona virus infections for the 1st time scotland wales of time their restrictions. but the british prime minister bars johnson chose, has chosen not to impose similar measures in england. us health regulators have

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programs. award winning documentaries and debt news reports subscribe to you dot com forward slash al jazeera english. ah ah oh. i am eve pulmonary and critical care physician. i was born and raised in new york city in a lifeline abbey yankees. an i'm currently on the long stretch of work in the i to you like on

a or i week street and happens coincided with the emergence of krona virus or boston. and it's something that i think raises a lot of uncertainty and fear amongst it over there. practicing because there are so many i don't we don't know how bad it's going to be in march 20th about one and then fairly can fornia and it was another comb day today our patients volumes at the very low and the philos. jose, great. we are running a little bit low on teaching yourself and i was unable to find an adult

mask that i've got this pretty switch chip nass to where they're not the best at her birth like at the java. ah, hi guys, i'm future. i am an e r physician and i work at a couple community hospitals just outside boston, most of full time student right now i am getting my m b a from mit. and so what that really means is that i'm in classes monday to thursday, essentially during the week and i work on the weekends. and so things have been pretty crazy last few weeks and unfortunate that i have these breaks in between my shifts might accept as tomorrow. and so it's really hard to know what to expect.

lou container that looks like a small lunch box and a has my name. my name on it. and this is my and mainly 5 that i'm going to be using the entire time. at least the entire week. maybe longer. i was doing a lot of research says i find out if there were a specific guidelines and of course, because it's a pretty new virus, there are a lot of published guidelines available. so it's you do what you think is best um and hopefully i didn't. what's best for my patients? interestingly enough, i didn't as a single person today for go it even though about half the patients i saw

definitely had it. and that's because her low on tests and none of them required admission or mit or met the criteria that we look for it's march 30th about midnight and i just had my 1st death likely from coded super sad story. was a 65 year old male who was walking and talking earlier tonight, but had been complaining of some short of breath recently with new visitor policies in the hospital. it's really, really difficult. you have to go to family and say at your level and has just died, but you cannot visit them right now. i think that as things ramp up, it's going to have a much different much crazier events will change and it's going to feel much different than the emergency room. who

in all think we sort of like compartment allied and shut off the terribleness of it and connect just enough to have empathy one when talking to the families. and i think, you know, if you really took every case and every death to heart, it be impossible to do the job that we do. so i think that's like a coping mechanism. and i think it, there is an appropriate balance of being in touch with your emotions, but not too much that you're crying over every patient to me. but everyone on there's like a patient, i'll touch you and you don't know why. maybe you like the family. maybe the patients hands reminded you of your dad or whatever it is. it does like often

connect to your core and you feel this sort of emotion and this lump in your throat and water in your eyes. and you're like, i've turn this off me here. new york might be getting a little bit better as what they're saying. see my mom all the time. she lives in new york city and i go down once a month to see or and i haven't been able to see her. it's always hard. you're always air thick. my car wrote down on sunday and i called triple a. and to play have you been in contact with somebody who you know, has grown i was like no because i knew i say yeah, come help in my car. so it's saturday, april 4th, just finished

a shift 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 am going to try to go to new york city to see if i can get a little comes job. i think that the time is emergency medicines, spotlight, and it be kind of ashamed to not see what what is going on in new york city now. oh. like i said earlier, i am feeling very fortunate that i have 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. and so we're not going pain and a patients. yes there. so the whole thing is just really crazy. nurses are really unhappy with the short staff providers because sick patients are waiting for a really long time, even though we have enough people theory at theoretically, just more setting doctors home early in. the whole thing is just crazy, but they're trying to come back on her hours because i guess we're expensive and they're not. you know, hospitals not making any money off of the elective surgeries, but i felt like today was busy regardless. so i'm glad to be done. anyways, i got an hour ish drive ahead of me. thankfully there is no traffic, i guess that's why the most positive things i can think of in this entire situation . mm

hm. how are you? yes, it is finished the chef and i take it off. i have all of the hard for all those live right? the only. ah, it was a coffee right now. ah, ah ah. oh. so i just finished a night shift. ah, it was a long one. julie long when i on see ah exit. no, it ended with a terrible death. so it's always leap was awful. every patient is you know, blah blah blah, year old blah blah. here with respiratory failure from chrome verse. it just kind of can be a little bit di, monotonous. today we had a patient come in,

who was interested in the emergency room. and out i was putting in a central line in her neck and i are a 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 bad. they're bad but belong, it's. and like this woman walked into the emergency room. thought i might have to wait a while. so i should get assemblage. and got a sandwich, and now is on life support without family around her because we're not allowing families in it all. suddenly i look at her and like saw her as a person instead of just a patient with kronos terrace. monday,

april 13th, 0930 at night. and i just got home 2 weeks ago i was kind of like bummed out that none of my patients had gotten better at that. this is a long haul to recovery and i looked back last night. those patients say, i think i signed up 10 peas heights. none of them have gotten better. some are so live, but love them have gotten better. this is why i don't like scary. the me.

alright, so i'm going to give a little bit longer of an update of where i am, how i got here and what's been going on. so i am currently working in a coded unit. it's in the washington heights neighborhood of manhattan. this unit was set up about 2 weeks ago. it's set up in not in the mean hospital. we're currently in the lobby of the hospital. i'm not sure if the hospitals in california were doing quite as openly but we were trusting family members off with with an a 95 and p b and our firm to come and visit which which is incredibly necessary. ah ours we all we have, i pads next to all the bad so patients can face time if they don't have their own phones. ah me. i definitely feel

a little bit nervous. our contract and cove it but who knows? i might have been positive at some point in the past. i might have been through it . i don't know. 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 yes, definitely. when somebody touches their face, i think i touch my face earlier in this video, but it's definitely, i notice that i really wanted to see more and understand cova. it's a fascinating, fascinating illness. and i've only been in the past few days getting to understand a little bit. i'm understanding how is changing our practice of

medicine. oh, wow. well with that one, given her with those errors. he is my esteemed colleague. huh. i'll throw them various in i had a very, very exciting news to share. today, april 19th. i estimated who he is. ah, which is awesome, is awesome. i had been working like a dog on service for weeks and weeks and weeks and had not activated a single page. and i explained it to today,

which was really and i call 1st ring family member picks up everything. okay. and already updated them. they weren't expecting another phone call and they said, we're sex to be a you dad. and he's doing great. and the only genuine joy on the other end of the line and the like i, this is the best news i heard in weeks. thank you. think you, you know, that we can the yeah, nothing available you will is just oh, really good to deliver that news on and your patience for their lives and we're fighting for them. but these family members are home fighting and praying do everything they can to will their loved

ones. and you could just hear the relief on the other end of the phone. ah natal, great. did i is april 30th. 2020 and i have my next shift tomorrow on friday. um, but i just found out that it's my last shift at this hospital, which is also that i've been working in for 4 years. just found out that they are cutting all rushes because there's not enough volume dealer and a mac and they can't give me any more shifts for an indefinite amount of time. i'm. i'm in a bit of

a disbelief. i'm really upset about it. i'm to stay for that. i have another hospital that i work at. although sherman i hear from them any minute, they're cancelling my chefs as well. next week. i just can't believe at a time when we have a we're in the middle of the bay as health crisis for generation. and me as an e. r doctor has suddenly left in a position where i don't have a job and i'm worried about my rent. i mean, i'm a some more fortunate than one of the people in terms of my training in terms of what i do right now. i don't feel that way. maybe i have to move to a smaller place so i can't afford it. i don't know when i'm in again more shifted as hospital again. maybe i can look for another job.

it loves his place. i can't leave that to martha. when i say it's heartbreaking. yes, the throat has her. they had a 2 days to my patients that was pretty young. she is and i rather call the son to be with her mom was back for joseph oxygen. your son was waiting outside. the room. pairing is a window like the last moment of his mom and she wanted to be with him. so she asked if she

could take the oxygen off. we take the oxygen show that he'll die, but also might feel uncomfortable to try to take it off and her son went in. she passed away pretty immediately and i guess it's good to die alone. so in the past few days, i've got to walk around the hospital and visit some things, and i visited the operating rooms which have turned into intensive care units.

and this is one of the craziest things that i've seen. each operating room contains 3 to 4 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 in each. one of them is pretty wild. also in my 2 weeks here. we have only treated one caucasian patient, i think more than half of our population, spanish speaking i think that goes to speak how much of this disease burden multigenerational households and the poor population in manhattan and where we are and further of the people that cannot socially distance burdens the people that are unable to work from home.

i thanks for tuning in. it may 8th, 2020 to start off with the file for unemployment yesterday i did that, which is crazy. never even considered that being a possibility in my career as an emergency room physician, that's the one they we joke about. we say job security when somebody does anything stupid because theoretically that's true, this is really interesting because of the voted so much of my time to helping to educate patients into understanding women needs to come to the emergency room when they don't. and i pride myself on my i focus so i am, i'm proud that i have retained a lot of that from my training in canada and been 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 are coming because i want pregnancy test. those people pay me through you guys i t is thursday. may, 14th, i had like our research few days and i feel like i probably should have been recording during it, but it's still ongoing. so home, our own feelin really, really burned out, ah, really tired today is monday may 18 work was insane on friday. and he was absolutely not 1234. today is thursday, june, a letter to go probably put an 80 hours

a week for the past 2 weeks. no longer able to sleep until like night am a super grateful that i love my job and emergency medicine and that i'm able to come out and help out where i'm able to. he hands m grateful. just my family is healthy and see if it is i might engage a patient who got really, really sick, one minute felt like she was going to die. she did find me. she was on the news today are being built and hold talking about her experience and talking out that dr . lee told her that she was going to be cut into a coma and put her daughter on the phone as like a speech,

but not really good to see somebody in the window leave. so many of like non rennes, we've had so many deaths to me. awful dad, there is easier. remember those people and kind of feel awake? yeah, we went through this battle, this war, but they are, survivors are so didn't are losses are so great. then you see a woman like this on, you know, on the ears and she looks great. here's how something you like. okay, we're ah,

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