Inside the Containment Zone
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's heart-wrenching. We're caregivers. We took an oath to take care of people and to have |
| 0:12.0 | to ration resources is a very painful decision to make. |
| 0:15.8 | New Rochelle is a suburb about 25 miles outside of New York City in Westchester County. |
| 0:21.2 | It's become the epicenter of one of the country's largest outbreaks. In less than 10 days, there |
| 0:26.3 | have been over 100 cases of coronavirus in the area. Here's what we know about this cluster. |
| 0:31.8 | On March 2nd, a 50-year-old Manhattan attorney tested positive for coronavirus. It's not clear |
| 0:37.5 | where he contracted it. He's the first case of community spread in New York State. |
| 0:43.3 | By March 7th, 23 cases were linked to this man, including members of a synagogue. |
| 0:49.0 | New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is not taking any chances. This week, he set up a one-mile |
| 0:53.8 | containment area around the suburb and deployed the National Guard to assist with food deliveries |
| 0:59.0 | and cleaning public spaces. I got exclusive access to the New Rochelle Hospital Emergency Room |
| 1:05.3 | to meet the doctors and nurses at the front lines of this pandemic and hear from them directly |
| 1:10.7 | about what they are seeing in one of the country's hot spots. I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, |
| 1:16.1 | CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent. And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction. |
| 1:27.1 | So this is one of our ventilators. You can see that that is on. It's attached to or oxygen |
| 1:32.4 | source and to electrical supply. These are typically used in the intensive care unit. |
| 1:37.6 | Your intensive care unit is full right now. Perhaps not surprisingly. That's right. |
| 1:42.4 | Dr. Theresa Madeline is a health care epidemiologist for the Montefur Health System. |
| 1:47.2 | She's in charge of the medical center's response to the growing pandemic. I spoke to her in the hospital |
| 1:52.8 | and asked if she was surprised it had now become the epicenter of New York State's coronavirus outbreak. |
| 1:59.4 | It isn't a surprise but it certainly is a concern. New York and the surrounding areas certainly |
| 2:05.1 | are a place where we anticipated there might be significant activity. But I think now we're just |
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