Forum From the Archives: California Health Workers Reflect on COVID Care, Eighteen Months Into the Pandemic
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🗓️ 25 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:42.8 | From KQED. |
| 0:58.2 | From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. |
| 1:03.0 | Forum is off this Thanksgiving, and we're bringing you an episode from our archives. |
| 1:08.4 | Last December, we spoke to two nurses and two doctors on the front lines of COVID care in California. |
| 1:13.2 | At the time, cases were surging statewide, and no vaccines were available. They described heartbreaking patient deaths, overflowing ICUs, and the heavy emotional |
| 1:18.3 | toll of their work. |
| 1:20.4 | Those same health care workers joined us again, nine months later, to share what they're experiencing |
| 1:26.2 | now. |
| 1:27.2 | Their answers may surprise you. Join us. |
| 2:02.2 | This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. On this Thanksgiving day, in recognition of the sacrifices our state's health care workers have made on behalf of all of us during the pandemic, were replaying a conversation we had this fall with four frontline nurses and doctors. They first joined the program during the December 2020 surge when vaccines were not yet available and fear of bringing the virus home was high. |
| 2:07.6 | Yes, my parents do live with me. My dad does have diabetes as well as chronic liver disease, |
| 2:14.6 | so they are very immunocompromised. So yes, I am constantly worried that I'm going |
| 2:21.1 | to bring something for them from work and I'm going to make them sick. Today, we look at what these |
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