The short film above allows you to experience the brutality of the pandemic from the perspective of nurses inside a Covid-19 intensive care unit.
Opinion Video producer Alexander Stockton spent several days reporting at the Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix. Two I.C.U. nurses wore cameras to show what it’s like to care for the sickest Covid patients a year into the pandemic.
So many Americans have died in hospitals without family by their side, but they were not alone. Nurses brush patients’ teeth, change their catheters and hold their hands in their final moments.
In just a year, we’ve lost half a million Americans to Covid-19. Vaccinations may be offering some relief, but inside I.C.U.s, nurses continue to contend with the trauma and grief of America’s carousel of death.
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Hi I'm one of the producers on this film, happy to answer questions about how and why we made this
May they never be forgotten
This vid actually shows negligence. If you look…these ppl were intubated for more then 14 days…which is a HUGE malpractice violation. If they INDEED needed oxygen they need a trech performed.
So what killed them is NOT covid…but intubation. Intubation destroys lungs…invites infections…
Also, they were obese. So not healthy to begin with.
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Remdeathsivir.
The drug protocol made sure most people didn’t leave the hospital.
I am 29. I got the latest vaccine and I still wearing a mask and yet I just got my first COVID. If a person who is much younger and already vaccinated still gets very sick and has trouble sleeping, I can't image why they are holding it…….AND YET!!! Ppl on the street are already no longer wearing a mask even if COVID is still there……
This made me cry, my sister is an icu nurse and it does bare a weight on their shoulders. Bless all our healthcare workers!
Still don't think this was a virus, very sinister, something was released
Nurses should make more than doctors
Wheezing and seizing they'd have to have a separate unit for it.
Hats off and massive respect for all nurses. Actually everyone who works at a hospital.. It's like a line of dominoes. Everyone is needed.. My heart is filled with gratitude and thanks. 😍😍
🌈💞🙂I know there’s a lot of medical people out there that truly care, but it is a heartbreaking, wrenching shame that mostly everything has to do with money. There really shouldn’t be a price value on caring for other people and having enough help. To care for people shouldn’t have anything to do with money, but then again, this is the real world😢
What do you mean when everything is maxed out? Do you mean insurance wise and price wise? that’s what’s the shame, not enough money or insurance coverage 😢
I have leaned and come to believe that sometimes they’re not given enough time to get better, everything shuts down because of insurance reasons, and not enough people to care! WHAT A SHAME!!!!!!!
I'm in nursing school. I know I am needed. So I'm gonna finish, even if it is a hard job.
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this makes me so happy/grateful my parents were able to be in the icu with me. more for their sake than mine.
I’m forever ruined by my profession as a nurse during Covid and how it was handled. I’m so sorry to those who are struggling.
přiblblí šašci pošahaní !
I have COVID-19 right now..im so scared…ive had all my vaccines so i have a fighting chance..i just hope I dont wind up on a ventilator…
The only reason people were Dying in the Hospitals was because of the Treatment Proptocols 🤮
It's 2024, and I'm watching this again. We need to remember. Don't forget to thank those that struggled to keep us alive.
God bless all of you nurses!!!
My mom was a pct/cna at our local hospital for 20 years she got Covid and passed at the same hospital on her bday in ICU and now I work there as a aide it’s a experience for sure 😢
I've been Respiratory Therapist for 39yrs…seen a lot of tragic and crazy things over the yrs…but the CV19 was no joke….Christmas morning 2021…myself and 1 other RT gave report to the oncoming shift on 29 patients on ventilators with CV19….was so surreal….we all love the RNs and MDs…but don't forget the ones they call when the chips are down….the ICU RT is a highly skilled and capable clinician that will always be there for you…with little recognition….the red headed stepchild…lol…love my job…married to an ICU Nurse…so it keeps things interesting. God bless. Be kind.
Mask made little to no difference
people were straight up murdered in hospitals.
did you Tik Tok dance?
These nurses deserve credit lots. Of it my own mom died from covid she went to the hospital an died 8 days later with nurse holding her hand its so sad
Looks like bellsnickel from Christmas Chronicles
I can only hope that humanity has learned and remember the lessons from the pandemic. I was lucky and was able to be with and say goodbye to my dying mother during the lockdown. I can't imagine what it would feel like have not been able to do that. So many people traumatized by covid-19. Kudos to the nurses and this great story.
Nurse get paid a lot
My doctor used to tell me you can break or make my day..
9:34 That's so sad :((
Nurses Rule!!♥️
I didn’t like how when they were gonna flip the patient someone said this might be the last thing we have to do for her. It sounded kind of mean. But otherwise bravo all especially Sarah
<17% of the US is currently up to date on their covid boosters.
= Folks are dropping this thing in droves.
Well over 65M Americans have had zero covid jabs and we are all doing just fine today w no issues or regrets.
If we were truly "being hospitalized and/or dying at higher rates" then it would be relentlessly covered by the media, wouldn't you think?
Yet, we hear nothing of the sort.
Could you even imagine how many disillusioned Americans refuse to believe Covid was real because 1 orange narcissist man child president lied to the public.
I can't believe so many people chose to believe Trump's lies over empirical facts happening right in front of their eyes.
Trump should be tried for crimes against humanity on his mishandling of Covid. Many people didn't have to die had Trump told the truth.
Shameful president and shame on those who vote for this maniac.
lets not forget that they fired nurses who would not inject themselves with the poison shot. lets not forget they lied and denied the shot victims. lets not forget they gave the patients treatments to end their lives instead of treating them. these people were corrupt.