Following One Shift in the COVID-19 Unit (with ER Dr. Megan Ranney)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Megan Ranney recorded her shift in a COVID-19 ER in Rhode Island the day after Thanksgiving and was kind enough to talk to Andy about it. Though her job is both physically and mentally exhausting, she manages to remain hopeful. This is a rare look inside a hospital’s COVID-19 bubble.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

Learn more about Get Us PPE, the group co-founded by Megan Ranney that’s getting personal protective equipment to those who need it most: https://getusppe.org/
Read about the field hospitals opening in Rhode Island: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/30/metro/rhode-island-sends-alert-hospitals-reach-covid-19-capacity/
Check out the tweet Megan mentions from the night before her shift in the COVID-19 unit: https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1332166999200456704
Learn more about Megan’s work with the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, the country's only non-profit committed to reducing firearm injury through the public health approach: www.affirmresearch.org
Pre-order Andy’s book, Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response, here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165

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0:10.2	go away on vacation, when I come back and see the actual progress I make on my workouts,
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0:59.2	So our phone here has been ringing off of the hook all day because family members are
1:03.6	just desperate to find out a little bit more information about how their family members
1:07.3	are doing.
1:08.3	Oftentimes with COVID, they are too sick to reach out to their family members on the outside
1:13.4	in order to give them updates.
1:14.4	So that burden then falls on to us.
1:17.7	And there's just not enough people to answer the phones.
1:20.3	A very big amount of people who are calling in.
1:22.6	So it is vitally important that we continue to be more proactive actually in calling out
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