The Perfect Storm: The Hidden Death Toll of COVID-19 on the Most Vulnerable

The Brain Health Revolution Podcast

Dean and Ayesha Sherzai

Life Sciences, Intelligence, Alzheimers, Mood, Mind, Stroke, Brain, Iq, Braincapacity, Anxiety, Brainy, Mental, Depression, Science, Memory, Parkinson, Dementia, Longevity, Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Friends, in this episode, we are shedding light on a community devastated by the consequences of this pandemic, as if it was not bad enough, close to 500,000 people have lost their lives in the United States, and more than millions around the world, on e community has been especially devastated by it. We’ve been asked to talk about this topic by several media channels, and Ayesha starts the conversation by narrating a part of an article that was recently published on USA Today.

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0:00.0	George Pitchford knew his wife, Betty, a retired educator, whose lively mind was lost in the fog that is Alzheimer's, was going to get worse.
0:25.0	But he hadn't expected her to die, at least not so soon.
0:30.0	Betty's ramped-up decline started with the coronavirus pandemic.
0:34.4	The nursing center where she lived closed to visitors and everything changed.
0:40.3	George and a legion of family friends were no longer allowed to take Betty on the walks she so greatly enjoyed.
0:48.7	Within months, she was in a wheelchair.
0:51.7	They saw her only through window visits or via FaceTime calls, neither of which
0:58.0	were especially productive. Betty seldom spoke. After a while, the glimmer of recognition
1:05.4	that appeared in her eyes when she heard George's voice disappeared. She didn't want to eat. All these things
1:13.9	just sort of fed on each other, George Pitchford said. In September, Betty Pitchford, 76,
1:22.5	who had been an accomplished quilter, occasional clown for children's parties, active member of her church,
1:30.8	and the NAACP and director of special education for the Pontiac School District,
1:38.0	outside of Detroit, became one of the thousands of Americans with dementia to die unexpectedly, succumbing not to the
1:47.0	infection of COVID-19, but to the way it upended their already off the kilter lives.
1:55.0	Now, this is one story out of thousands out there.
2:01.6	Yes.
2:02.6	Well, Aisha and I are very familiar with Alzheimer's patients and dementia patients.
2:09.6	And you and I see them in the clinic all the time.
2:12.6	Right.
2:13.6	We have an emotional commitment and bond with these patients.
2:18.3	Besides the fact that we both experienced this with our grandparents,
2:21.3	and I was in the same room, you know,
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