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Chasing Life

Nursing Home Heroes

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Doctors Without Borders has built a reputation parachuting into war zones and natural disasters. Now they are bringing their expertise to American nursing homes hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with the organization's staff about how they’re working to make nursing homes safer for residents and staff. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

She didn't deserve to die like this.

0:04.4

So all of a sudden there were so many patients,

0:06.6

everybody needed medications, everybody needed treatment.

0:09.9

I did it to this dad, but he said,

0:13.1

I just heard from hard.

0:15.3

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

0:19.0

Long-term facilities like nursing homes

0:21.2

have been described as tender boxes for this pandemic.

0:24.6

So many people closely clustered and vulnerable.

0:28.6

And the crisis has become so severe

0:31.0

that the United States has attracted

0:32.8

some unlikely attention from doctors without borders or MSF,

0:37.9

they're a non-governmental organization

0:40.2

best known for their work overseas in war zones

0:43.2

and natural disasters.

0:45.4

But now they're here in the United States.

0:49.3

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta,

0:50.8

CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

0:53.2

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

0:59.0

It was pretty surreal to land here in the US on home soil

1:05.0

and begin working here.

1:06.0

I didn't expect that when I began with us 12 years ago.

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