Coronavirus: Mental and physical toll

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Women in Ecuador, Peru and Brazil reveal the frightening effect of the pandemic and lockdowns on women in Latin America. Many are living with their aggressors and are unable to escape to a safe place. Many countries are now dealing with a new rise in coronavirus cases. Host Nuala McGovern hears from medical professionals from Madrid, Paris and New York, as they share how the stress of dealing with patients is taking its toll on the mental health of doctors, nurses and paramedics. Plus, two Swedes offer different views on how the outbreak has been handled in their country.

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0:00.0	This is the sound of climate change.
0:05.0	Find out what it all means at the end of this podcast.
0:11.0	Hello, I'm Nula McGovrin on the BBC World Service and this is BBC OS, conversations
0:20.3	about coronavirus. As many countries are experiencing further outbreaks of COVID-19,
0:31.0	we hear about the increasing number of physical threats for women in three Latin American countries
0:36.7	and hear the opposing views on Sweden's treatment of the pandemic up until now.
0:42.8	I think we have lost our humanity in this debate.
0:46.5	We have lost our dignity and our morale.
0:49.8	I mean, how many lives is it worth going to a nightclub?
0:56.8	The pandemic has killed more than a million people across the world
1:00.6	and the number of confirmed cases now exceeds 55 million. Medical health
1:06.4	professionals have been at the front line of this disease for the best part of
1:10.7	a year now and for Banny the resurgence of cases is an unwelcome
1:15.2	reality after such a distressing and stressful first wave especially in America.
1:22.1	This is how lieutenant paramed, Anthony Helmegera, who's also Vice President of the
1:26.7	Fire Department of New York's Emergency Medical Services Officers Union, felt back in April.
1:33.2	It's very scary because now you're walking out into this war zone going against an
1:39.4	invisible enemy. You know I get these messages from people I've been drinking too much. I'm unable to sleep. This
1:45.0	past weekend I had somebody call saying they wanted to kill themselves. So the visceral
1:50.0	impact on people is very tangible. And we try and be there for each other the best we can
1:55.8	because it's all we got. Unfortunately New York's daily death toll from the
2:00.9	coronavirus has just reached its highest number in six months and
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