>> narrator: amid the pandemic- two women separated from those they love. first- >> she was brought down to thecu, knowing that her oxygen level had gotten precariously worse. >> narrator: a new mother fighting the virus. >> she's 30 years old. she just had a baby. she's really sick. >> narrator: her baby at risk. >> was the baby going to be extremely ck and infected 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

children are without a home. >> the last time that i had my own bed was like three months ago. >> narrator: andiner husband is ce detention. >> an gent plea from behind bars, don'let us die. >> nartor: these two stories now, on this special edition ofn fron >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbswe station from v like you. thank you. and by the corporation forbl broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdanc and ul world. more information at macfound.org. the ford foundation: working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worlide. at fordfoundation.org. additional supports provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in jourlism. the park foundation,d dedica heightening public awareness of critical issues.

the john a helen glessner family trust. supporting trustworthy inspires.m that informs and 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)

>> we need medium-sized allevyn pad cut in half. >> oy. >> bring me a clean specimen bag for me to put this in. >> zully's case was very uniques foecause this was one of our first few ses with a mom who was extremely sick and covid-positive. was the baby going to be result of covid, too?fected as a we didot know that at that time. there was not a lot of da there. now we know that most babies don't get extremely sick with not aware of that. time we were >> the baby did have several tests done, and he teste negative. but we knew that mom was potive, and then we had to safely execute on a plan for him to go home to a sa environment. ♪ billy's gonna check your

temperature. >> any symptoms? okay. >> marvin: >> i said, "listen, marvin, i am willing to help 100%. i really did not know this family. i mean, zully just came to the united states, i think, a year 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 marvii and , they were both covid-19-positive. this baby wod have not stood a chance if he went home with his father with covid-19 and junior. he's just a preemie baby. i went to the hospital with marvin. oh, my god. hi, baby. >> luciana (speaking spanish): it wast easy because, you know, he saw his son for the go near him.and he couldn't even sud it reay broke my heart. after going thro 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? i was thinking ias staying 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. >> zullywho is young compared to most of our patients, she was brought down to the icu knowing that her oxygen level had gotter prusly worse. we decided that we were gonna have to intubate her or put herg a breatacne to help support her oxygen. (monitor beeping) >> this patient over there, when i started him, he was on 100%...

>> the night nurse gave me my assignment, ich was zully, and she said, "she's 30 years old. she just had a baby. she's really sic she was super stable overnight, and she's gon be your only tient right now, so yoonly can... you only have to focus on her." sickest patients on the floor at that time, and i thohe very well might not make it rough this. and that was-that was (monitor bping) (indistinct chatter) >> while she was intubated, she a good majority of the time actually side down on a fancy bed that aually takes you and turns you completely over. so when you're on that, she was completely in a ma. >> in my head i said she's- i'm not gonna let appen.y time. >> she's okay? okay.

>> can i have the patient'srs fit and last name, please? >> zully... ♪ >> ah. (both laughing) >>he was in the icu almost three weeks total, i think. she was on the 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. >> it takes a while toheir body back up and running. >> do you need to rest? >> it's an unfortunate consequence of being in the icu. orit's something we try to through with our patients. >> all right. ooh...

>> ooh >> good job. >> (laughs) patients who have sd from being in the icu. (monitors beeping) >> zully (speaking spanish): >> 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. ly >> z >> calina (speaking spanish) m we met zully andvin at the very beginning, when she was hospitalized. when zully was fighting for her life, um, we had people going every day to provide food to him and to junior.

toys to him.er 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 kn, almost 35% of e population is foreign-born. >> (speaking spanish): and the pandemic was effecting families like zully's disproportionately. the whole pandemic and how it evolved and how fast it all happened, this is still hard to comprehend for all of us. so many people were losing their jobs. so many families did not have af way d their kids or pay the rent.ty so the commut large really rallied. >> he's a very goobaby. here, buddy. >> he's okay. >> he's okay?s >> ht a little hot...

>> i came here wn i was 17 years old from brazil. my husband was an illegal imgrant. he came here when he was 19 years old. and look at m now. i me, 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. i know. it's okay. (baby crying)

(phone rings) >> oh, it looks like the hospital. hello? all of a sudden, 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. pick her up."s to be here to okay, we're sending her home, but her husband was not...e' you knowcovid-19 positive positive and the baby's covid-19 negative. so... ho i was in when i received that phone call because i really thought she wagoing to still be hospitalized for one more week at least. but if it was a person with insunce, then they would probably send her to a rehab, when do we have to pick her up? how does this work? i mean, i'm-i'm just a teacher.n

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

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

>> zully: >> good? that's it? >> tnk you, guys. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> zully: >>unior: >> aurora:

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

>> zully: ♪ >> marvin:

♪ >> okay, ready? >> marvin: >> okay, all set. >> marvin: >> okay, let me try it. >> (scres) >> ya, papi. ya, ya. >> marvin:ai. ya, ya.. >> (groans)os >> you agot it.

>> marvin: >> thankou for holding. your call is very important to us.si (hold playing) >> okay, you had two testsone. and one was the nasal and the other one wathe blood work. the nasal swab came back. the swab is positive. >> marvin: >> junior is the same, also. mm-hmm.

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

♪ >> the whole testing was so complicated and so convoluted. i and i think thjust so typical of the challenges that you ce when you have a language barrier, when you have a cultural barrier, when you're scared. are very, very hopeful that her rapid fast test results in

an hour and a half, they will give us a call. ♪ >> yes. >> zully:

(baby crying) >> oh, i know, i know. oh, this is so hard. and today's goa be a very special day because you're gonna meet your mommy and your daddy and your brother. >> (makes laughing sound) >> (laug) i love when he does that. it's like i was his mommy for the last five-and-a-half weeks. and i gave him as much love as i woulgive 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, ay. my baby. , >> lucia're here. (laughter) >> oh, my god.

>> zully: >> liana: >> hello, papi. >> shh, shh, shh. shh, shh, shh. (indistinct chatter) in (phoneng)

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

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

(sound distorteaking up) (phone beeps, call disconnects)

>> (baby fussing) ♪

f coming up next on this special edition ntline- her husband is locked up in immigrant detention and her children have no place to call home. in collaboration with the marshall project and the pulitzer center, "undocented in the pandemic" begins right now. >> in new jersey, over the past three days, deaths have doubled. >> this morng president trump officially issuing a major disaster declaration for the gard state. >> and now jersey city is 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):

>> jesus (speaking spash): ♪ (children clamoring)sp (woman speakinish)

(indistinct chatter) ) (baby cryi >> higher, higher... >> norma: >> one, two, three, go! ♪

♪

♪ (birds chirping) >> there is no impediment to people who are undocumented coming forth for the medicalee care that they we have assurances that that's the case, i hope that it is.sp (reporteking spanish)

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

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

>> mm. ♪ >> jesus: ♪ >> new data suggests a growingtb ak of coronavirus infections amoung immigrants in u.s. custody.o >>r the government has refused to consider a large (overlapping voices)ainees.

♪ >> norma: >> i like that attitude. hi.

>> and you have a phone number? >> norma: >> it's room number... >> (speaks indistinctly) >> okay. (speaking spanish instinct) >> i'm gonna be here. >> i want to be here. >> i want to be here. thank you. bye. (laughter) the last timthat i had mywn bed was like three months ago.

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

>> andrea and norma:

(birds chirping) ♪ norma and jesus:

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

♪ (kids speaking indistinctly) >> okay, david, you ready? >> norma:

>> walter: ♪

♪ >> (speaking spanish) >> (laughs)

>> hey! >> papi! >> papi! papi! >> (speaks indistinctly) (girl screaming) >> this my dad. (squeals) >> e have stuff for you. >> (speaking spanish)

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