>> narrator: amid the pandemic-w women separated from those they love. first- kn she was brought down to the icu, owing that her oxygen level had gotte precariously worse. >> nrator: a new mother fighting the virus. >> she's 30 years old. she just had a baby. shs really sick. >> narrator: her baby at risk. nd was the baby going to be extremely sick anfected as a result of covid, too? >> narrator: and their struggle to re-unite. and later- in collaboration with the marshall project and the pulitzer center. >> norma (speaking spanish): >> narrator: norma and her

childrenre without a home. >> the last time that i had my own bed was like three months o. >> narrator: and her husband is in ice detention. >> an urgent plea from behind bars, don't let us die. >> nartor: these two stories now, on this special edition of frontline. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support is pvided by the john d. d catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. the ford foundation: working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worlide. at fordfoundation.org. additional suppoprovided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in. jourli the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public

the john and helenner issues. family trust. supporting trustworthy journalism that informand inspires. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. ♪ >> marvin (speaking spanish):

(siren blaring) (indistinct chatter) (monitor beeping)

(monitor beeping (indistinct chatter)

>> what's that? >> we need medium-sized allevyn pad cut in half. >> okay. >> bring me a clean specimen bag for to put this in. >> zully's case was very unique for us because this was one of our first few ses with a mom who was extremy sick and covid-positive. by was the oing to be extremely sick and infected as a result of covid, too? weid not know that at that time. there was not a lot of data there. now we know th most babies don't get extremely sick with covid, but at that time we were not aware of that. ha >> the baby di several tests done, and he tested negative. but we knew that mom wasd positive, en we had to safely execute on a plan for him go home to a safe environment. ♪ billy's gonna check your

temperature. >> any symptoms? oka >> marvin: >> i said,listen, marvin, i am willing to help 100%. i really did not know this family. united states, i ta yearto the ago, and marvin has been here for six years. and junior is my bilingual student. and that's how i met them.

when we were able to test marvin covid-19-positive.ere both this baby would have not stood a chance if he went home with his father with covid-19 and junior. he's jusa preemie baby. i went to the hospital with marvin. hi, baby. >> luciana (speaking spanish): it wasn't easy because, you know, he saw his sonor the first time, and he couldn't even go near him. and it really broke my heart.r afing through such a big trauma not even knowing if your wife was gonna make it...

i took the baby home. right, baby? (baby fussing) hold it, hold it, hold i there you go, you can trust. right, buddy? ngi was thinking i was sta with the baby for one and two days, and now i am three weeks. (indistinct chatter) >> so how many patnts do we have now? >> we have... nine. ou >> zully, who is compared to most of our patients, s she ought down to the icu knowing that her oxygen level had gotten precariously worse. we decided that we were gonna have to intubate her or put her a breathing machine to help support r oxygen. (monitor beeping) i started him, he was on 100%...

>> the night nurse gave me my assignment, which way, and she said, "she's 30 years old. she just had a baby.sh s really sick. e was super stable your only patient now, soa be yoonly can... you only have to focus on her." ckest patients on the floor at that time, and i thought she very well might not make it through this. and at was-that was (monitor beeping) (indistinct chatter) >> while she was intubated, she spent a good majority of the n time actually upside dow a fancy bed that aually takes you and turns you completely over. so when you're on that, she was completely in a coma. >> in my head i said she's- she's not gonna die on my time. t gonna let that happen. >> she's okay? okay.

>> can i have the patient's first and last name, please? >> zully... ♪ >> ah. (both laughing) >> she was in the u almost three weeks tal, i think.on she wahe ventilator for about 18 days, and then another day or two afterwards as we were waking her uand regaining her strength. (dialogue indistinct) we got you. ta >> is a while to get their body back up and running. >> do you need to rest? >> it's an uortunate consequence of being in the icu. it's something we try to work through with our patients. >> ooh.right. ooh...

>> good job.ug >> (hs) >> there are instances of patients who have ptsd from being in the icu. (monitors beeping) >> zully (speaking spani): >> most people who were in the icu take weeks if not months to

gain her strength back. i imagine that's what she's going through. but most people will tell you even their mind isn't back where-where they were. >> zully: pe >> catalina ing spanish): we met zully and marvin atry the eginning, when she was hospitalized. r when zully was fighting r life, um, we had people going every day to provide food to him and to junior.

toys to him. there was a phone call every day. "how are you doing? what else do you need?" >> (speaking spanish): >> mm-hmm. >> stamford is a very unique community in which, you know, almost 35% of e polation is foreign-born. >> (speaking spanish): and the pandemic was effecting families le zully's disproportionately. the whole pandemic and how it evolved and how fast it all happened, this is still hard to comprehend forll of us. many people were losing their jobs. so many families did not have a way to feed their kids or pay the rent. so the community at large really rallied. >> he's a very good baby. here, buddy. >> he's okay. >> he's okay? >> he's got a little hot...

>> i came here when was 17 years old from brazil. my husband was an illegal immigrant. he came here when he was 19 years old. and look at m now. i mean, he is an immigrant who worked his way up. it's the american dream. (phone rings) >> marvin: >> hi. >> luciana: >> marvin: >> luciana: >> call on hold. >> i know. it's that time, buddy.it i know okay. (baby crying)

(phone rings) >> oh, it looks like the hospital. hello? all of a sudn, i get a phone call, and it's a doctor from the hospital, and they just tell me, "oh, uh, zully is being discharged today at 4:00. somebody needs to be here to pick her up." okay, we're sending her home, but her husband was not... you know he's covid-19 positive and the brother is c-19 positive and the baby's covid-19 negative. so.. i was in shock when i received that phone call because i really be hospitalized fomoreto still week at least. but if it was a person wh surance, then they would probably send her to a rehab, right? when do we have to pick her up? how does this work? i don't know how this works.er.

i needed to pick her uat 4:00. and i looked at my watch and i'm like, "wait a second, it's 2:45." we can't. i am sorry. you're telling me you're giving me one hour to make arrangements for a patient who has been in an induced coma for a-a month? you cannot discharge this woman in one hour. i am sorry, i just can't... (crying) ♪ an entire project for all of us. i mean, their house seemed like thousands of miles away. so i called the ambunce, i made the appointment. i told him to be there as late as possible to give us time to prepare. then we went over to the house to wait for her to arrive.

(speakinspanish): ? >> mm-hmm. >> catalina: >> junio (speaking spanish): >> aurora: >> they're coming now. >> oh... >> luciana: y! ah, zu (cheering, applause) zully! yay, zully! welcome home. bievenida, zully. (laughs) >> mommy?

>> zully: >> good? that's it?gu >> thank youys. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> zully: >>unior: >> aurora:

>> ready? >> ♪ happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy bthday baby neysel, happbirthday to you. ♪ >> luciana: >> aurora: zully: >> bye, guys. >> hasta luego.

>> zully: ♪ >> marvin:

♪ >> okay, ready? >> marvin: >> okay, all set. >> marvin: >> okay, let me try >> (screams) >> ya, papi. ya, ya. >> marvin:ai. ya, ya.. >> (groans) >> you almost got it.

>> marvin: >> thank you for holding. your call is very important to (hold music playing) >> okay, you had two tests donea and one was thl and the other one was the blood work. the nasal swab came back. the swab is positive. vi >> m >> junior is the same, also. mm-hmm.

>> marvin: (zully crying) (marvin exhales) >> marvin: >> zully: ♪

♪ >> the whole testing was so complicated and so convoluted. d i think this is just so typical of the challenges thatyo you face whehave a language barrier, when you have a cultural barrier, when you're scared. we are very, very hopeful that her rapid fast test results in

an hour and a half, they willa give ull. ♪ >> yes. >> zully:

(baby crying) k >> oh,w, i know. oh, this is so hard. and today's gonna be a special day because you're gonna meet your mommy and your daddy and your brother. >> (laughs) i loven he does that. it's like i was his mommy for the last five-and-a-half wks. and i gave him as much love as i would give to my own son. ♪ >> so this is a mess right now because we're trying to pack everything for zully.

there's some extra donated milk, his little stroller. >> catalina: >> marvin: >> oh, his diapers and... ohmy god, okay. my baby. >> luciana, we're here. (laughter) >> oh, my god.

>> zly: >> liana: >>ello, papi. >> shh, shh, shh. shh, shh, shh. (indistinct chatter) (phone ringing)

>> aurora: >> luciana: >> aurora: >> zully: >> luciana: >> aurora: >> zully: >> aurora:

>> zully: ♪ (phone ringing) (sound distorted, breaking up)

(sound distorted, breaking up) (p)ne beeps, call disconnec

>> (baby fussing) ♪

>> coming up next on this special edition of frontline- her husband isocked up in immigrant detention and her children have no place to call home. in collaboration with thect rshall prond the pulitzer center, "undocumented in the pandemic" begins right now. >> in new jersey, over the past three ds, deaths have doubled. >> this morning president trump officially issuing a major disaster declaration for the garden state. >> and now jersey cis an epicenter for the virus with cases skyrocketing there. >> fatalities in the pandemics epicenter will continue to rise. (speaking spish)

>> norma (speaking spanish): (line ringing) >> recording (speaking spanish):

>> jus (speaking spanish): ♪ (children clamoring) oman speaking spanish)

(indistinct chatter) (baby crying) >> higher, higher... >> norma: >> one, two, threego! ♪

♪

♪ (birds chirping) >> there is no impediment to people who are undocumented coming forth for the medical re that they need. we have assurances that that's the case, i hope that it is. (reporter speaking spanish)

>> norma: (birds chirping) >> andrea: (thuds)

♪ >> walter: ♪ (birds chirping) >> mm-hmm.

>> mm. ♪ >> jesus: ♪ >> new data suggests a growing outbreak of coronavirus infections amoung imts in u.s. custody. >> so far the government has refused to consider a large scale release of detainees.

(overlapping voices) ♪ >> norma: >> i like that attitude. hi. a

>> you have a phone number? >> norma: >> it's room number... >> (speaks indistinctly) >> okay. (speaking spanish indistinctly) a >> i'm be here. >> i want to be re. >> i want to be here. thank you. bye. the last time thatad my own bed was like three months ago.

>> andrea: (phone ringing) >> norma and andrea:

>> andrea and noa: c

(birdsrping) ♪ >> norma and jesus:

>> norma: ♪ >> hey, a fire! >> fire, a fire. ♪ >> andrea:

♪ (kids speaking indistinctly) >> okay, david, you ready? >> nor:

>> walter: ♪

♪ >> (speaking spanish) >> (laughs)

>> hey! >> papi! >> papi! papi! >> (speaks indistinctly) sqirl screaming) >> this is my daueals) >> we have stuff for you. >> (speaking spanish) ♪

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