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Chasing Life

A Frontline Worker at the Breaking Point

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Healthcare worker Parsia Jahanbani’s job might be killing him. Some of his patients are rude to him. He’s working longer and harder, while the rest of the country tries to move beyond the pandemic. CNN Senior Writer Thomas Lake tells the story of a frontline worker at the breaking point. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I remember one morning I opened my door and the kids from our apartment complex in front

0:07.5

of my door had written down thank you so much for what you do.

0:12.7

That's Parcia Jambani, a frontline medical worker in Tustin, California.

0:17.9

That's near Los Angeles.

0:19.1

I was writing on that energy for days.

0:21.8

There was a sign that they put up my door into the hero that's here.

0:26.2

This day's a week he puts on what he calls his space suit.

0:29.9

Basically it's full body PPE, personal protective equipment, and then he goes out to give

0:35.4

coronavirus tests in under-privileged communities.

0:38.5

He does this up to 12 hours a day.

0:41.1

He says a lot of them are coughing on him, sneezing on him, but he loves his job.

0:46.4

He thinks of it as a calling.

0:48.5

That made all of this effort work.

0:51.5

When we're driving in the streets, people were honking at our medical unit.

0:55.6

They were honking, they were waving.

0:58.4

And fast forward a month and a half.

1:01.3

Last week I had somebody slip me off.

1:04.5

As the year has gone on and this virus has become increasingly politicized, his work has

1:10.5

gotten harder.

1:12.0

There's less appreciation.

1:13.9

There's more abuse.

1:15.2

There's more danger.

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