2/6/2022: Death in Training, Breaking Point, Canada's Unmarked Graves
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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On this week's "60 Minutes," there's an ongoing problem with military service members. As Lesley Stahl reports, they are being killed -- not in combat -- but in vehicular accidents during training. Covid hospitalizations and staff shortages are pushing healthcare workers to to the brink. Sharyn Alfonsi reports. Last year, when archaeologists detected what they believed to be 200 unmarked graves at an old school in Canada, it brought new attention to one of the most shameful chapters of that nation’s history. , Anderson Cooper reports on the residential schools of Canada, where more than 150,000 indigenous children were sent after being forcibly removed from their communities.
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| 0:47.1 | What's being done about it? |
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| 0:49.3 | We found there are solutions, but an important one is stuck between the Pentagon and Congress. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh my God! |
| 0:58.0 | We are holding admitted patients in the emergency department for days upon days. |
| 1:06.0 | So they're just sitting in the ER because there's not a bed? |
| 1:09.0 | Yes. |
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| 1:11.6 | I feel like everybody is in survival mode. |
| 1:14.5 | Not only just us and in the emergency department, I think the whole hospital is. |
| 1:18.3 | We had an entire wave of nurses and physicians who'd worked for 25, 30, 35 years. |
| 1:23.5 | They said, I'm done. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm not going to do this anymore. |
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