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El Paso’s COVID Spike Didn’t Have To Happen

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Bob Moore has covered all kinds of crises as a journalist in El Paso, Texas. But the COVID-19 surge is enough to make him crack. There’s a time for dispassionate journalism. This isn’t it. 

Guest: Bob Moore, founder of El Paso Matters.

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0:00.0

What's up, Facebook?

0:09.3

How are y'all doing this evening?

0:12.4

There's this video that's been making the rounds online,

0:15.7

recorded by a visiting nurse who's just returned home from working in a COVID ward in El Paso, Texas.

0:22.6

Yeah, I have been wearing this in 95 masks.

0:26.4

I even have to sleep in it last night.

0:30.6

I had to sleep in this mask all night now.

0:33.5

She's broadcasting from a corner of her house, trying to maintain some kind of distance from her kids.

0:40.7

Watching feels like being inside a confessional.

0:44.3

The nurse whispers, she gets teary.

0:47.4

She actually says she spent the first hour of her six-hour drive home, sobbing.

0:54.0

This last assignment was horrific for me.

1:00.0

I have been debating on whether or not to even talk about it.

1:05.6

And then, for nearly an hour, she unloads just about everything she saw in El Paso.

1:12.6

She talks about a room full of COVID patients that doctors refused to enter.

1:17.8

She says it was called the pit.

1:20.0

One night, we had 10 cold blues in one night, in one 12-hour ship.

1:28.6

I don't think none of them made it.

1:31.6

That night when so many patients died, she says the morgue filled up,

1:36.6

which is when someone rolled a dead body into the ICU.

1:41.4

So we got to do our work.

1:49.6

Take care of our patients and constantly look over at a body body dad in the bed. Y'all, it was torture.

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