Breakthrough: The Covid Fortress

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On the outside, city hospitals look just as they always have: big glass and steel buildings, an ER entrance with ambulances coming and going. But on the inside, Covid has completely transformed the hospital experience for patients, their families -- and for doctors and hospital staff. Once held in high esteem as the place where doctors performed miracles, hospitals have become more sombre places under the staggering weight of illness and death even as communities increasingly view them through the lens of vaccine misinformation and mistrust.

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0:31.3	What were you doing in there? I'm making sure they clean Don Long's vent. Don't want one more
0:35.7	person getting a super bug. It might be too late for that.
0:38.5	In March 2020, an episode of a Fox network television show called The Resident Appears about a lethal
0:45.3	fungus spreading through a fictional hospital.
0:48.3	The fungus has an ability to attack people with underlying conditions, such as diabetes.
0:54.4	The hospital staff go to great pains to try to get rid of the infection without causing panic
0:59.5	or revealing their own mistakes.
1:02.1	Kedida Horace is highly dangerous and immune compromised patients.
1:06.6	Half the people who get it die.
1:08.7	The coronavirus actually makes a brief appearance in the episode.
1:11.6	We're lucky it's not airborne like the coronavirus.
1:14.6	The staff is not at risk, but the patients could be.
1:16.6	But it doesn't really figure into the plot.
1:19.6	Anyway, one of the writers behind this episode is named Daniela Lomas.
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