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406 - The Hospital feat. John Pearson (3/30/20)

Chapo Trap House

Chapo Trap House

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4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We check in on how COVID-19 is affecting some important locations and people in the greater chapo-verse. Then we're joined by Oakland-area nurse John Pearson to discuss how the response to the COVID pandemic reflects the greater industrial and political failings of the American healthcare system. Plugs from John: - PLEASE sign the CA statewide healthcare workers’ demand petition, people can read and sign here: tinyurl.com/CaCOVIDDemands - To follow what’s happening on the front lines of the COVID crisis where I work follow my account @oaklandnurse on twitter and instagram - Our union chapter facebook page run by rank & filers, with more COVID photos and content: @ahsseiu1021.ourvoice and insta @ahs_seiu_1021_

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Okay, hello friends. It's your chop-off for this week. It's me, Matt Felix and Amber coming to you from our

0:43.5

apartments and with you remote

0:46.5

social isolation shop, continues and just a little bit

0:50.2

We are we are talking to a

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Oakland-based nurse John Pearson about to get his perspective from you know for the very front lines

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of the COVID pandemic going on it was actually like a really really interesting and good

1:05.2

conversation about not just like what it's like to be you know working in healthcare right now

1:09.4

But you know the what it's like to deal in that job with the healthcare system in America and you know why it's you know

1:16.4

strangling

1:17.6

the entire country at the moment, but let's say hello again to all of you my friends and

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to

1:25.3

Introduce our ongoing covert coverage. I have just two quick hits regarding two

1:31.9

geographical locations that have been featured on the show before these are sort of our

1:37.4

Some some favorites again that I think it's worth revisiting and I'm gonna begin with here courtesy of Politico

1:45.0

At least five residents from the villages have contracted the coronavirus through community spread and or close contact with someone else who had the virus

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According to the Florida Department of Health in some their county the villages is a rapidly growing retirement community of more than 50,000 residents

2:00.5

That spans three north central Florida counties at least 16 of 29 residents who tested positive had contracted the virus while traveling and another

2:08.7

Eight residents remain under investigation

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So we've got we've got the villages

2:14.9

Experiencing its own coronavirus thing. I mean by the way

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