California Health Workers Reflect on COVID Care, Eighteen Months Into the Pandemic

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Last December, Forum spoke to four nurses and doctors on the frontlines of COVID care in California. At the time, cases were surging statewide, and no vaccines were available. They described heartbreaking patient deaths, overflowing ICUs and the heavy emotional toll of their work. The same healthcare workers join us again, nine months later, to share what has improved and the profound challenges that remain for those caring for the sickest patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.2	Last December, Forum spoke to two nurses and two doctors on the front lines of COVID care in California.
0:56.2	At the time, cases were surging statewide and no vaccines were available.
1:00.4	They described heartbreaking patient deaths, overflowing ICUs, and the heavy emotional toll of their work.
1:06.4	I have had to watch a co-worker die in my unit.
1:11.4	I have had to watch family members and friends suffer from this.
1:16.7	I've seen entire families be hospitalized because they still just don't believe that this is real.
1:22.3	Those same health care workers join us again nine months later to share what they're experiencing now. And their answers
1:29.2	may surprise you. Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. With headlines declaring last week that
1:41.6	California has achieved the lowest coronavirus case rate
1:44.7	in the nation, we thought it would be a good time to check back in with four frontline nurses
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