tv Witness Pandemic 19 Al Jazeera February 14, 2023 1:30am-2:01am AST
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one percent as the number in portugal, like catholic authorities in many countries around the world, portuguese bishops are struggling to respond to a self inflicted crisis that's brought deep suffering to its victims. and severely damaged the supposed bastion of morality in some comedian asia. we are aware as a church that we are a church that makes and has made. and we'll certainly make mistakes. i can't guarantee that to morrow. there won't be another case of abuse. i would love to say that, but i don't, i can not say it. what i can say is that we have a different consciousness today. it wasn't easy for us to go down this path either . but we did it because we had to, it is essential to have the truth for the portuguese victims, prospects for justice are mixed. $25.00, testimonies have been sent for criminal investigation, but the rest are outside the 20 year statute of limitations. so nothing can be done . maurice alan's how to 0.
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ah. the top story is allowed to 0. it's been a week since to devastating earthquakes, hip turkey and syria, and the u. n. is now warning, the rescue phase of the response is coming to a close or than 37000 people have been declared dead across the 2 countries. but the final tolls likely to be significantly higher against all odds survivors are still being found. my 13 year old was rescued on monday, after spending a 192 hours under the rubble of collapse building of the turkish province of hat. i have also been moments of hope and joy in the city of adam m. a young girl who's been named as mir. i'm was also rescue. the international aid effort is continuing, but supplies are running low in both countries. you ends aid chief martin griffiths want humanitarian needs across the region. are immense. what we've seen happening
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in these zones of the earth, great is that the rescue phase is dragging live people out from the rubble finding those who died in the rubble that's coming to a close. and now the humanitarian phase. the urgency of providing shelter psycho social care food schooling and a sense of the future for these people. that's our obligation now. and in the last couple of hours, syrian president bashar al assad is agree to allow you and a deliveries to the rebel held north west through 2 additional border crossings. anger has been building in syria with survivors saying the international community has let them down. earlier, qatari aid convoy arrived at the bomb a how are border crossing to provide relief for people in north west syria. 7 trucks carried blankets, winter clothing, tents, and other essentials into the country. they tow secretary general says russia's fear new offensive in ukraine has begun. a moscow has dispatch more troops and
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weapons for its war effort. he installed him bergs, urging european nations to fast track the supply of weapons, ammunition, and fuel to ukraine. his comments come a day before a meeting of europe in defense ministers in brussels. the issue of supplying aircraft ukraine's expected to come up them. ok, you are watching out, is there a witness is coming up next, thanks for joining us. talk to al jazeera, we ask her, what should they not be more with perhaps a foundations like yours? we listen when it comes to diversification. we don't do it in order to get think of the rational energy source we meet with global news makers. i'm talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera ah
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a . i am the pulmonary and care physician. i was born and raised in new york city in a lifetime, a yankee m. i'm currently on the long stretch of work in the i to you like on a or 5 weeks straight and happens. jeff 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
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are so many i know we don't know how bad it's going to be in march 21. and then fairly can fornia and it was another comb day. today our patient 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 kids, nasa where they're not the best at birth. i get the job done. i
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am, i am an e r physician and i work at a couple community hospital just outside boston 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 crazy, crazy, the last few weeks and unfortunate that i have these breaks in between my shift, my next shift as tomorrow. and so it's really hard to know what to expect in the me a little container looks like a small lunch box and has my name. my name on it.
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this is my and 95 that i'm going to be using in the entire at least the entire week. maybe longer. i was doing a lot of research today trying to find out if there were a specific guidelines. and of course, because it's a pretty new virus, there aren't a whole lot of published guidelines available. so it's if you do what you think is best and hopefully i didn't. what's best for my patients? interestingly enough and it has a single person today for her, even though about half the patients i saw definitely had it. and that's because are low on tests and none of them required admissions or of 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,
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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 your loved one 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. the emergency room new the in all inc, 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.
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and i think, you know, if you really took every case and every death to heart, it'd be impossible to do the job that we do. so i think that's like a coping mechanism. and i think it's, there's 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's on. there's like patient, i'll touch you and you don't know why maybe you like the family. maybe the patients hands reminded 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 tended off me here, new york might be getting a little bit. that's what they're saying. my mom all the time, she lives in new york city and i go down once
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a month to see her and i haven't been able to see her so it's hard to air and get sick. my car wrote down on sunday and i called triple a and 2 boys as they have you been in contact with somebody who you know has chrome i was like no because i knew i say yes that i can come help me with my car. so it's saturday, april 4th, just finished a shift yann's mom. 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 lo comes job. i think that this time is emergency medicines,
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spotlight i and it be kind of a shame to not see what what is going on in new york city with like i said earlier, 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. and so, and i can 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
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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 trying to cut back on ours because i guess we're expensive and they're not 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 this entire situation. me finish taking off all this for so long some coffee right now.
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so i just finished night shift you know, the launch really quick and see i think that should ended with a terrible death. so it's always like every patient has him blah blah, blah, year old blah blah. sheer with respiratory failure from chrome verse. it just kind of can be a little bit not today we had a patient come in who was included in the emergency room. and i was putting in a central line internet real artery line and her wrist. and while i was doing it,
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the nurse was going through her belongings and came across a sandwich in her bed. their baggage belong, it's like this woman locked into the emergency room. thought i might have to wait a while. so i, she get a sandwich and got a sandwich. and now is unlike 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 krona virus. 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. and that is, is that a long haul to recovery?
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and i looked back last night. those patients say, i think i signed up 10 p heights. none of them have gotten better. some are so live, but love them have gotten better. this just wild. slight scary thing. all right, 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 cupboard at 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 marion hospital. we're
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currently in, but lobby of the hospital. i'm not sure if the hospitals in california were doing quite as openly, but we were dressing family members off with with the a 95 and p t and allowing them 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 that 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
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a mask and not touching it while it's on. and i think i yes, definitely. when somebody touches their face, i think i touched my face earlier in this video, but it's definitely a notice that i really wanted to see more and understand co good. so trusting, fascinating on us. and i've only been in the past few days getting to understand a little that understanding how it's changing our practice of medicine. was the one given this is the rose, is my esteemed colleague. not through the various stuff
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i have very, very exciting news to share. today, april 19th, i estimated who he is. yes. ah, which is awesome. is awesome. i have been working like a dog on service for weeks and weeks and weeks and had not activated a single page. and i actually needed to day, which was really and i call 1st ring family member picks up everything. okay. and already updated them. so they weren't expecting another phone call. and i said, we just activated your dad and he's doing great. and the genuine joy
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on the other end of the line and the like a this is the best news i've heard in weeks. thank you. thank you. you know that we can again, nothing unbelievable is just oh really good to deliver that news on and your patients are paying for their lives and we're fighting for them. but these family members are home fighting and praying and do everything they can to will their loved ones. and you could just hear the relief on the other end of the formed ah, not felt great did
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did i is april 30th of 2020 and i have my next shift tomorrow on friday. i'm but i just found out that it's my last chest at this hospital, which is also that i've been working for for years. just found out that they are cutting all rushes speak, has 30 not enough volume dealer and amec, 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 and 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 b as held crisis for generation. and me as an
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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, is a more fortunate than one of the people in terms of my training in terms of, you know, 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. me regular for an hour job id love this place. i can't believe that tomorrow's my last day. it's heartbreaking but yes, it's rough times for of a i had 2
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days or 2. my patient was pretty young and i rather called the son to be with her. so her mom was back for joseph title, oxygen. her son was waiting outside. the room. pairing is a window like the last moments of his mom. and she wanted to be with him. so she asked if she could take off we take the oxygen off, i show that he'll
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die, but also might feel uncomfortable to try to take it off and her son when she passed away pretty immediately and i guess it's going 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 had 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.
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i think more than half of our population, a spanish speaking i i think that goes to speak, how much of this disease burdens ah, multi generational households and the poor populations in manhattan and where we are and burdens the people that cannot socially distance burdens. but people that are unable to work from home i thanks for tuning in. it's may 8th, 2020. to start off with, i'll say that i had the file for unemployment. yesterday i did that. it was just crazy. i've never even considered that as being a possibility and i career as an emergency room physician. that's the one thing we
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joke about. we say job security when somebody does anything stupid because theoretically that's true, this is really interesting because i've devoted so much of my time to helping to educate patients into understanding when they need to come to the emergency room when they don't. and i pride myself on that. i focus a lot i i'm, 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 a months. people who are coming because i want a pregnancy test. those people pay me through
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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 fill in really, really burned out, ah, really tired today is monday, may eat team work was insane on friday and he was absolutely not. ah, 1234 today is thursday. do you know whether to go probably put an 80 hours away for the past 2 weeks? i'm no longer able to sleep until like night am. i'm 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 and ah, grateful just my family is healthy and here
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it is a late engage, a patient who got really, really sick, wondering it felt like she was gonna die. she did 1st mission is on the news today are being built and hold talking about her experiences. talk about that dr. lee told her that she was going to be cut into a coma and put her daughter on a speech. but not really good to see somebody in the window leave so many like non rennes. we've had so many debts to me. awful data. there is easier. remember those people and kind of feel awake. gary went through this battle, this war, but like her survivors are so did in our
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a huge project shrouded in secrecy. i can see the end product. so these are both, it's actually pure i'm, i'm holding a well fast. this is a big step for the whole industry. when we make these years ago, the great, the damage caused the precious gras. samantha chile, it's being reversed with one of the world's biggest at a conservation project. they're pretty emblematic of the pedagogy and if they're plentiful and they're calm like this one is, then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threat. and that's why you're calling for re wilding pass ago on al jazeera me. the news.
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