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🗓️ 20 March 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, Catherine. |
0:02.0 | Hey, Catherine. |
0:03.0 | Uh, everything is really happening now. |
0:08.0 | Yeah, things have escalated just really quickly just in the last 24 hours in New York. |
0:15.0 | It's now Governor Cuomo, who had initially said he would not be doing a shelter in place order, |
0:21.0 | now essentially is saying that this will go into effect on |
0:24.8 | Sunday that you are not to leave home unless you are an essential employee and |
0:30.1 | you can travel for work. |
0:32.6 | And you can go out for jogs and for a few things |
0:37.7 | like food and medicines. |
0:39.7 | But there shouldn't be any socializing or recreational leaving of home other than that. |
0:45.8 | Okay, so I live in New York, you live in New York, we're about to just have to stay home. |
0:50.3 | Yeah, yeah, you know, well, you know, New York is the most densely populated area in the |
0:56.4 | U.S. so that I do we do we do we know anything about the state of the hospitals here |
1:00.4 | right now? Yeah, I don't have numbers in front of me, but the reason that the |
1:04.8 | governor said that he's doing this is because the number of cases increasing so |
1:09.2 | quickly and that if it continues to happen we will surely run out of ICU beds, specifically ventilators, and we'll be at that point already, which we've talked about before on this podcast, and yet is coming even more quickly than I was |
1:24.2 | imagining where we would have to be making decisions about who gets |
1:29.2 | ventilators and who doesn't and people would die who would not die if we had enough medical facilities. |
1:37.1 | So that is why these extreme measures are being taken. |
1:47.3 | And even I didn't expect that it would come to this so quickly. |
1:52.4 | But I'm not saying that it shouldn't have come to this this quickly only because the messaging that we are hearing |
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