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On the Front Lines at a New York Hospital

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The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The mask shortages in New York are worse than we imagined. Jim and Katherine talk to a doctor who describes the dire scene inside a major hospital. Recorded 1pm ET, March 21, 2020. If you want to help hospitals with supply shortages, a spreadsheet with more information is available here: https://bit.ly/3dn2eVa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Jim. Hey, Catherine. New York has just been declared a major disaster and the cases are rising pretty

0:07.1

rapidly. Really rapidly. Just during the course of this month we've gone from 1 to 8,377.

0:13.5

And that's just confirmed cases in the state.

0:16.4

That's New York State.

0:17.7

Yeah.

0:18.3

And that's the data we have, as we talked about yesterday,

0:21.6

we don't necessarily have complete data.

0:23.6

We're in that exponential growth phase where it is just skyrocketing and...

0:28.2

Right. So we're really rapidly getting into a really scary situation.

0:35.0

That's just the fact.

0:36.1

That's just the fact.

0:37.4

Yeah, it's eerie actually to look out your window

0:39.4

because it's quiet because people are either home

0:42.3

and either just bored or are sick at home or have gone to a hospital now and are pouring into emergency rooms and clinics trying to get help.

0:53.0

Right, so the city is a very strange place to be right now.

0:56.0

Okay, so with, yeah.

0:58.0

And that the main worry right now is that hospitals are going to be overwhelmed quite quickly.

1:06.5

So today we are calling a doctor who's working in a hospital

1:11.5

to try to figure out how health care professionals are feeling and what they're seeing happening right now and how that lines up with what we're hearing being reported.

1:22.0

Yeah. Okay, so that's our plan today. We're calling

1:24.0

Angelica today who's a doctor working in a hospital in New York City.

1:27.6

Hello. Hi, thank you for talking to us. How are you? I'm okay. I'm kind of

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