Healing From COVID-19
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In this special ITT episode, Maria shares her story of healing from COVID-19. She reconnects with friend and actress Debi Mazar, who was a guide and support throughout her journey. Then she brings together a group of women of color including Amanda Alcántara, Futuro Media's digital editor, Elizabeth Yeampierre, executive director of UPROSE, and Stacey Monroe, a trans advocate and community organizer. They share about making it through this illness, the ancestral knowledge that carried them, and being in community with one another. This episode was reported and produced by In the Thick's New York Women’s Foundation IGNITE! Fellow, Harsha Nahata. ITT Staff Picks: - Nicole Karlis writes for Salon about a Facebook support group for COVID-19 survivors that now has tens of thousands of members. - "The list of lingering maladies from COVID-19 is longer and more varied than most doctors could have imagined," writes Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, in this article for Science Mag about the lasting impacts of COVID-19. - In this story for Texas Public Radio, Ben Henry reports on survivors experiencing fear and distrust from neighbors, friends, and strangers long after their recovery. Photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay Â
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:23.0 | Grazias. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey my dear in the thick listener, |
| 0:30.0 | it's Mariano Hosa here, |
| 0:32.0 | and you know, today we have a little bit of a different kind of an in-the-thick episode for you |
| 0:38.1 | It's a little bit more personal because I'm going to be talking about my own COVID-19 story with you all and also I |
| 0:46.5 | wanted to bring other women in who have battled and survived and healed from |
| 0:51.3 | coronavirus into the conversation. |
| 0:54.1 | So that's what today's going to be about. |
| 0:56.6 | And I'm really proud and excited and a little scared |
| 1:01.1 | to share this with you too because you know this was hard. |
| 1:05.4 | It was around March 20th that I started getting really sick. |
| 1:10.8 | I was like I'm just feeling a little bit under the weather, but that went on and on and |
| 1:17.0 | and it just didn't get better. |
| 1:18.9 | I just remember the pain in my body? |
| 1:24.2 | Feeling like you had a gorilla clobbering your legs |
| 1:28.6 | and that you can't walk. |
| 1:31.2 | And that you really want to eat but you have no interest. |
| 1:37.0 | I remember when I had posted that I wasn't feeling well, |
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