Makers unite: Speeding PPE to a COVID hospital

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We kick off SEASON-19, about the cost of COVID, with a dose of hope — a story about an unlikely chain of people coming together to speed PPE to a COVID hospital in Brooklyn. NYC is a couple weeks ahead of the rest of the country, we think, so there are lessons here we can all get ready to use. Especially this: Don't be afraid that what you have to offer isn't enough. Take the step in front of you, even if it's a little one.

Here's a couple ways to start

You can donate to that effort to get PPE to that Brooklyn hospital here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/artcube-army-ppe-supplies
There are stories like this all over, big and small. And we want as many as we can find for SEASON-19. Tell us about the ones you know at https://armandalegshow.com/contact/

... or leave a message on our hotline: (724) 276-6534. That's (724) ARM N LEG.

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0:00.0	Hey there. How you holding up? Welcome to season 19. I sincerely hope this will not be our
0:06.7	longest season. But our story this time is about hope. It's about making do in a time of crisis it's about people
0:14.9	coming together in extremely weird circumstances who never met each other
0:18.6	before to get things done quickly and it's a story from New York City, which we think is a couple weeks or so
0:25.1	ahead of where the rest of us are heading. So I hope it's going to give a lot of us
0:29.2	some ideas about what we can do and how we can be helpful.
0:32.6	This is an arm and a leg, a show about the cost of health care.
0:38.2	I'm Dan Wiesen.
0:40.2	I've been saying for a while that the show is focusing on self-defense because
0:44.4	the cavalry isn't coming and that one job for the show is to help us train ourselves
0:49.0	up to be some version of that cavalry, to hold the line.
0:53.0	And right now, holding the line is literally a life or death
0:56.7	situation on a scale we haven't really seen before.
1:01.9	People quote Mr. Rogers a lot these days about what to do in a crisis.
1:05.6	Find the Helpers. And this is a story about people deciding to become the Helpers
1:11.0	and finding each other.
1:13.2	It's wild and it's really, really lovely.
1:16.8	All right, let's go.
1:19.4	This story starts right in the middle of March,
1:21.4	when New York City basically shut itself down and a lot of people's jobs just totally went away.
1:27.0	That includes people like Kat Navarro.
1:29.0	Okay, who I was before all of this, maybe.
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