A Frontline Worker at the Breaking Point
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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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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