this winter in buffalo, about 600 kilometers from new york city, they saw more snow in december than any other winter in the past. 50 years and boston saw record low temperatures and early february, down to negative 35 degrees celsius with windshield, which i experienced 1st hand rock and fuel on my fingertips through the glass. meteorologist say the extreme temperatures are caused in part by a weather pattern known as linear, but also something else from a change. as you know, the oil is warming, or winter's, or warming, and all weather now is taking place in an atmosphere that's fun of mentally church, it's warmer. it's more moist. and our weather is all current and that changed atmosphere. a new reality, perhaps with new yorkers, 1st enjoying the warm weather. but now beginning to ask themselves,

will it ever snow this year? because this isn't normal. gabriel is aniko. ouch is eda new york? ah! hello again. i'm elizabeth rodman, door hall with the top stories on al jazeera. it's been 10 days since to devastating as quakes to kia and syria. the turkish military has been flying in much needed 8 areas that will cut off by the quakes. sammy's a vans and other provinces more on the relief efforts there you read about remote communities. it's another thing when you actually on a helicopter and you go over these areas and you see a little cluster village which is just a little cluster of houses nestled on top of a mountain. and then you fly for several more minutes and you come to another similar scene. how do you go from community to community in terrain like that

and get a to people? it is q lan task that lies ahead of authority to try and reach old people the w h o a says it's great as concerns are about northwest syria and has asked president basha, an asset to open more border crossings with to kia many survivors say they've been left behind by the international response. and other news, there's been fierce fighting in easton, ukraine is russian forces continue to attack ukrainian positions and the don, yet region 12 people were injured when an apartment building was damaged by shelling. earlier russia said its troops had broken through to 45 lines of ukrainian defences in the hands. scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon has announced her resignation. sturgeon said she had remain leader of scotland. government until a successor was appointed. at least one person is dead and 3 others are injured in

a shooting at a shopping rule in the us state of texas that happened in the city of el paso police say they have one suspect and custody. thousands of people in columbia protesting against government reforms, is, comes after president the stop a petro presented, a health care bill to congress. president, also hopes to institute changes for labor and pensions. well, those are the headlines on al jazeera, witness pandemic, 19 as next. ah knowledge is with oh, are

are me so many jenny brady, i am a pulmonary and critical care physician. i was born and raised in new york city in a lifeline. have a yankee, an i'm currently on a long stretch of work in the i to you or i week street in and happen 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 we

just there are so many i don't, we don't know how bad it's going to be in i it's march 20th, went in fairly california and it was another calm day today, our patient volumes have been very low and to kill us. joe is great. we are running a little bit low on keeping yourself and 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. i get the job done. i

am, i am an e r physician and i work at a couple community hospital just outside boston myself full time student. right now i'm getting my m a from mit. and so what that really means is that i'm in classes monday to thursday, essentially are in the week and i work on the weekends. and so things have been pretty 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 ah, me. container looks like a small lunch box and has my name. my name on it.

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 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 finance as a single person today for co it even though about half the patients i saw definitely had it. and that's because are low on tests. 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. but had been

complaining of some shortness 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 than the emergency room. new the in all think we sort of like compartment allies 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'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 is an appropriate balance of being in touch with your emotions, but not too much that you're crying over every patient you can't to but everyone to 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 what they're saying. i see my mom all the time. she lives in new york city and i go down once

a month to see her and i haven't been able to see her. it's always hard. you're always air during the 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 chrome i was like no because i knew i say yes, the not gonna come help me with my car. so its 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 local job. i think that this time is emergency medicines,

spotlight and it be kind of a shame to not see what what is going on in new york city new. 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 in 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 trying to come back on our ours because i guess we're expensive and they're not hospitals, not making any money off of the collective surgeries, but i felt like today was busy regardless, so i'm glad to be done. anyways, i got an hour 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 . me finish taking off all this for so long in some coffee right now.

awe. so just finished, nature has a launch really long and an on c, i think that should end up with a terrible death. so it's always like so i thought every patient is you know, blah blah blah, year old blah blah. sheer with respiratory failure from chrome verse. it just 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 in her neck and real artery line and her wrist. and while i was doing it,

the nurse was going through her belongings and came across a sandwich in her bed. airbag belong, it's like this woman locked into the emergency room. thought i might 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 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 this is a long haul to recovery and i looked back. last ain't those patients say,

i think i signed up 10 peeves heights. none of them have gotten better. some are so live, but love them have gotten better. this just wild. slight scary thing and 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 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 marion hospital. we're

currently in, but lobby of the hospital. i'm not sure if the hospitals in california were during quite as openly, but we were trusting family members off with with the 95 m p b 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

a mask and not touching it while it's on. and i think i yes, it's 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, fascinating, fascinating on us. and i've only been in the past few days getting to understand a little that understanding how is changing our practice of medicine. was that one given diary this is, rose is my colleague through the various games

i had very, very exciting news to share. today, april 19th, i estimated to he's 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 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 i said, we just activated your dad and he's doing great. and the genuine joy

on the other end of the line and no like i this is the best news i heard in weeks. thank you. thank you. you know that we can the yeah, nothing unbelievable is just oh really good to deliver that news on and your patients are paying for their lives and were 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, nat felt great. did . did

i is april 30th. 2020 and i have my next shift to morrow on friday. i'm 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 rachelle speak, has 30 not in the 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 you know, what i do right now. i don't feel that way. maybe have to move to a smaller place so i can't afford it. i don't know when i'm in again, marcia to this hospital again. maybe i can look for another job id love this place. i can't believe that tomorrow's my last day. it's heartbreaking but yes, it's rough time for of a i had a couple days to my patient that

was pre onto my son to come be with her. so that was done. back for joseph your son was waiting outside the room carrying to the window. like the last moments of his mom and she wanted to be with him. so she asked if she could take off the frame that he

showed up but also feel uncomfortable to try to take it off and her son she passed away pretty immediately and i guess it's good kinda long. 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.

i think more than half of our population is spanish speaking. i think that goes to speak, how much of this disease burden multigenerational households and the poor populations 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 sending in. it may 8th, 2020 to start off with say that i had to file for unemployment yesterday i did that, which is crazy. never even considered that as being a possibility in my career as an emergency room physician. that's the one thing 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 to 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 so i am, i'm proud that i have retained a lot of that from my training in canada and configure 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 people who have a sore throat for a month. people who are coming because they want a pregnancy test. those people pay me how

you guys are today is thursday may 14th. i've had like our research up few days and i feel like i probably should have been recording during it, but it's still ongoing. so home around filling really, really burned out. ah, really tired today is monday may 18 work was insane on friday and he was absolutely not. ah, 1234 today is thursday, june a letter to go probably put an 80 hours a week for the past 2 weeks and 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. he hands m grateful. just my family is healthy and

june 17th. it is a late engage a patient who got really, really sick one. it felt like she was going to die. she did miss. she was on the news today are being built and hold talking about her experience. 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 like non rennes. we've had so many debts to me. awful dad, there is easier. remember those people and kind of feel awake? yeah, we went through this battle, this war, but like,

her survivors are so didn't her losses are so great. then you see a woman like this on, you know, on the ears and she looks great shears or something. you like. ok. ah . in a notorious waterside community. why kings and thugs room, one theater director ventures, to stage

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