I spent a day with FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKERS (COVID-19 outbreak)

health care workers those who work in a health care center to protect and improve the health of the individuals in their communities based on formal training and experience in 1760 New York City passed the first law mandating the licensed prospective physicians and penalizing those who remained unlicensed as of 2018 the amount of health care workers in the US alone has increased to nearly 17 million during the corona virus outbreak nearly all these health care workers have found themselves at the frontlines risking their health battling the effects of Cova 19 as first responders in some states medical staff account for as many as 20% of known coronavirus cases my name is Anthony Padilla and today I'm gonna be remotely sitting down with health care workers to learn what it's like being on the front lines during this pandemic to healthcare workers on the front lines feel truly appreciated and compensated for their efforts at ensuring human safety or do they feel overworked and exhausted by the new demands of their job our frontline healthcare workers confident and their safety able to instead focus their energy appreciating just how many lives they impact each day or are they terrified to step foot into work tormented by the immense fear of being exposed to the deadly virus and potentially spreading it to their loved ones [Music] hello dr. tansy pleasure to be here dr. shyly hi entity Katie thank you so much for coming on and teaching me about the wondrous world of frontline health care workers Thank You Anthony it's my pleasure what do you consider yourself a healthcare worker a first responder I was a frontline healthcare worker hi I'm a frontline worker but I'm also a director for the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility I'm more on the research side trying to determine what makes certain people more susceptible how can we find treatments ranging from regular medicines to natural products to even lifestyle mostly what I do my day job is like trying to cure Alzheimer's is an ism I discovered most of the new analysis on the genes including the first ones what does being a frontline healthcare worker entail being a front line workers anybody who is directly working with the crew of a patient but but most people think about doctors and nurses but it's also a physical therapy occupational therapy it's social work it's people in administration people logistics and running supplies what type of healthcare worker are you specifically I'm a researcher so I'm a scientist I'm a family nurse practitioner and a nurse midwife so most of my experience has been in primary care and urging I spend time in the hospital I work with a bunch of residents or in training into the gate to take care of these patients now keep in mind these might be patients with so many other medical problems too right and we have to balance all of those things in the context of Kovan what was going through your mind when you first heard about this corona virus outbreak that was starting to make its way over to the US oh oh is this it it was the big one you know a lot of people in the field epidemiology feel talked about it's been about a hundred years since the big big one from 1918 and so a lot of people were concerned that it's about to happen again and almost like we were overdue so people in the know had the sense of oh this could be it did you feel prepared to take on this pandemic my first impression is yes we are ready we have handled h1n1 we have handled seasonal flu but the more information we got particularly when we hear about the mortality the people dying from this is much higher than the seasonal flu then you sort of wonder do we have the capacity to handle the load of a lot of people getting sick at the same time and that right was when I started second-guessing how has your average workday changed since the köppen 19 outbreak it's always a good sign when I get just silence I'm gonna laugh my average workday used to be I would go into a busy low-income Medicaid clinic and I would hit the ground running and see anywhere from 20 to 25 patients and 15 to 20 minute intervals for eight hours now I go into work and I have anywhere from 30 to 50 patients on the ward and everyone is extremely sick they've got a lot more serious chronic conditions have your hours changed anything like that I'm working 12-hour shifts every single day and how long have you been working 12-hour days I've only been working two weeks so not so bad yet but you've worked 14 days straight 12-hour z CH day yes that's so casual that is a lot I know when you put it like that I realize it's a lot but the patients are so wonderful and it's been very I mean at times it's been incredibly frustrating and I do cry every day but it's also an incredibly joyous experience do you have easy access to Coba 19 testing because you're you're exposed to it so frequently I've had symptoms for a while and and I only got tested yesterday so you could be positive with kovat 19 right now I had the respiratory symptoms and abdominal symptoms and are these symptoms that you may have picked up from working in the field who knows I mean I just don't know I just know that they're consistent it's funny because I don't know if I wanted to be a negative or positive yeah you're like am I crazy if I think I have it but I don't have it and if I do have it like okay at least I know I have it and I can hope for immunity but then I have to go to bed saying man this virus is inside of me yet some people claim health care facilities are functioning as usual nothing's different while others and the media and the news is is showing just how overrun many facilities are and how understaffed they are and how they don't have the resources they need to withstand a pandemic like this have you been able to witness firsthand what it's really like so some hospitals are pretty empty because they're not the corporate hospital we're in a pandemic and you for self isolating so sure that can be true that those hospitals but the rest of the hospitals are a total show some of the ers around here have started to get better but now that I see use are over staffed and overrun I mean some nurses are on a six to one ratio normally it should be a one to one before we learn more about the wondrous world of front-line health care workers I just want to take a quick moment to say that 100% of profits from this video will be donated to first responders first a fun dedicated to the frontline healthcare workers serving the nation during the corona virus pandemic donations made the first responders first will provide essential supplies equipment and resources like online workshops and virtual training to protect these heroic health care workers for more information I'll include a link to thrive Global's first responders first website down in the description below and to everyone staying home practicing social distancing and taking this quarantine seriously thank you for doing your part and ensuring we make it through this as painlessly as possible for your health and for everyone around you it's tough now I know but if we all take this as seriously as possible I truly believe we'll make it to the other side of this and be stronger as a society than ever before that's all I want to say now back to learning about the wondrous world of frontline health care workers what's something everyone at home should know about this pandemic that they might not have heard through news outlets for example the biggest thing we're finding now is that none of the medications are working that great what's working the best is flipping people over onto their belly it's a positional change is giving us the best result for the respiratory distress that helped and that's helping them breathe better wine is it's taking a little bit of pressure like heart takes pressure off the lungs so they can actually get more lung volume and elasticity in lung capacity the other thing is the little blood vessels that are going by something called the a viola which is like the little it looks like a little grape punch at the bottom of your lungs where where gas exchange happens when you press on it you're physically pressing the vessels closer to those I've utilized so the gas exchange between the lungs and I'm looking happen when you go on your belly yeah it's really why things we take very seriously is keeping track of those who were infected who didn't have symptoms well if you look at the surveys just random surveys of people who are infected we're a symptomatic that real number of confirmed cases it's probably at least 10 times higher really well this thing can get into your brain through your nose and you know loss of taste and smell we should probably read about impatient yes that's because it's inducing inflammation in the brain there's a cytokine storm in the brain and Alzheimer's it's the same thing you get a cytokine storm that leads to most of the start done we're just setting up the whole protocol so if you know you're when we have the antibody test fully available everyone knows if they were infected or not we're going to have ways to keep track your brain health are you able to compartmentalize the the stress you face in your work life away from your home life yeah when he sees you sweating and like freaking out in the corner because you don't know what to do or not being able to fall asleep you have been working 84 hour work weeks for two weeks straight I can't imagine being able to completely shut that off and remain normal at home and I'm basically I'm working I'm eating and I'm sleeping and then you're doing an interview while you're eating off-camera well or just drinking the wine have you noticed a change in the way you and others working in the front line have been treated during all this yes so I was walking to work I was in my scrubs on the way to work so it's not contaminated and this guy looks up and he looks at me and he goes oh my god and then he crosses the street and gets as far away from me as possible wait so you are putting your health at risk helping people for 12 hours every single day not being able to eat and barely sleep and you have people judging you and trying to get away from you because what they think you're contaminated it's actually a really big problem a lot of us are being told not to wear scrubs to or from work and to change nourish codes when we get to work because there's been some of their offensive assaults on healthcare workers and scuzz people are afraid of us what has been the most difficult part about working on the front lines during this pandemic politics and finances are the biggest barriers to care and because of those things people are dying we have three people in New York City dying in hotels over the weekend and yet here we are with all the resources in the world to help them we have empty beds we have extra staff and we're having problem getting patients to us because of politics and finances because they don't have the big insurance because the hospital's want to keep them a patient's as they can because of billing for those patients or because D credentialing and the HR at the hospital hasn't gotten together yet to onboard the staff I mean the both administrators and financial people and politicians are huge barriers to care ash Bennett wants to know what you'd say to people claiming that Kovac 19 is fake and they might even be out there protesting against it during this lockdown but if you open up too soon we will not handle the influx we will have people dying in football fields on blankets with no ventilators suffocating lots of them you have to think when you go out there and you're complaining yeah I can't good investor I get oh you know it's I want to open it up this is all fake no it's not okay this is a nasty nasty virus the number of people who are dying from this is Kari hi it's not a joke it's not something that's made up from you know one political party to get that the political party down nothing like that it's it's quite a serious thing right it would have taken such a massive group effort so make the entire world believe that this virus exists if it didn't really exist I just don't think that we would ever have that kind of power to work together like that absolutely true valaria rodriguez wants to know what you learned from the situation that you may not have already known or learned from medical school we're working on how to get an antibody test sent to homes but to people in my lab you know leaving that after other than that the correct way with the right privacy and safety and everything reliability well you and the people working your lab are potentially doing what could save many of us maybe save our economies save people who need to do essential work and you have to try everything i met a guy at a meeting was like the mushroom king of the medicine world Paul Stamets who has like the biggest collection of mushroom extracts in the world he said I'm gonna send you some extra actually test them and we tested to see if they would stop inflammation because wait what kills a patient is the cytokine storm you have the infection and your immune systems trying to fight it and your immune system makes these chemicals called cytokines which keeps the immune system ramped up but if you have too many to get the massive inflammation in the lungs and you can't breathe what we're trying to find a one hand drugs that stop the virus but the other here we're trying to find drugs that tamp down the immune response in the inflammation yeah you don't want tamp it down too much too early because you need it in the beginning to fight the virus but if it's too much then it kills you so we found a few certain mushrooms extracts actually really tamp down the cytokine storm so these tests on mushrooms could eventually turn into something where you get tested early you find out you have corona virus you let it run its course for maybe a couple days and then you take something with you this mushroom in it and then it prevents your body from overreacting and harming or killing you yeah exactly that stats are pretty cool scenario what do you think about the current American healthcare system I think this test on the health care system is asking us that question what would we like universal health care to be why aren't we emphasizing public health that much more and why aren't we building up our primary care base that much more so that everybody is covered so we should be doing everything in our power to ensure that all citizens are covered their health care is maybe part of a government system to ensure the safety of an entire nation and beyond that we should even be ensuring that everyone in the entire world has access to health care it makes perfect moral sense it actually makes really good economic sense it does because you are as we see firsthand if you're not prepared your economy will fail along with the health of its people absolutely it's broken it's awful and you're seeing that firsthand yeah I was sheltered to it because as I mentioned I've worked in Medicaid for 14 years and then it's actually quite a good insurance if you live in an area where there are Medicaid providers and you can get specialty care and you have a good provider what would you say to any healthcare workers working on the frontline who are watching this and are maybe feeling an immense amount of fear surrounding their conditions going into work each day and putting their lives at risk leakage thank you be careful thank you absolutely well said what kind of long-term effects do you feel this pandemic will have on society as a whole a more selfless society I mean I'm seeing distant in my little world of researchers sharing of ideas and no one trying to protect their intellectual property this all hands on deck I don't matter we matter attitude I hope that lasts because that's probably the only silver lining I'm seeing on this I think it's gonna take a long time for us to feel comfortable with human touch again I mean it's only it's only been what like six weeks or seven weeks and already I feel I feel so inclined like by my nature now to avoid people I think that a lot of us are craving that one in that connection and it'll take a while to get there I think that you know mental health is a big issue and will continue to be a big issue with feelings of isolation what's the first thing that you're gonna do the moment that this quarantine is lifted and it's this is no longer considered a pandemic and you feel 100% safe and confident go outside into the world to do whatever you want probably go to my favorite Mexican restaurant providential I yeah it's funny how many people I've asked us to say they're gonna go to their favorite restaurant again I got a few people listed and I need to go and give them a big hug you're just gonna go give these people hugs yes oh yeah I'm gonna travel I'm gonna travel and spend that money yes spend that money we've been holding on this money because we're scared but once we're out of this we're just gonna the economy is gonna boom what do you think the biggest misconception is about frontline health care workers it's chaos it's a it's a changing situation every menu they're going through help they these these frontline here workers are going through hell honestly the patients are going to help for a different reason but they're going to a hassle I think that a lot of us we're just doing our job you're not thinking that you're there you're a hero this whole time no this is what we do you know and kovat is certainly a very scary thing for a lot of us because of the death rate but it's weird for some of us having everyone like in your everyone's happy and it's like such a good motivator I'm gonna clap for you for doing our job let's all clap for her doing her job I mean you're not just doing your job though you're putting your health at risk in this time when people are scared to leave their homes and you're ensuring that people can return back home after getting into the hospital or coming into you know need getting your help I really feel like almost every health care worker out there that could be here doing this would be here doing this because is our job and this is what you do when you show up for your job I actually have a parting gift for you a best interviewer shirt much like the one you see with inverted colors to your left and you could get this at padilha shop comm but for you I will ship this to you for free assuming that you take necessary precautions and not touching it until your your confident it is safe thank you all right you got five seconds a shout-out a promote anything you want directly in a camera go once you get Luke Ovid please support Alzheimer's researchers so number one and cure Alzheimer's form physical distance but social solidarity and believe in science support your local food bank support your local restaurant support your local housing programs please we need you everybody is an amazing interviewer as I've learned not just by watching YouTube but by this interview right now support him subscribe to him he's the best oh thank you this was great thank you so much dr. shyly I feel like I now understand the wondrous world of working on the frontline in the healthcare system just a little bit more Thank You Anton EADS it's been my pleasure after spending the day with these frontline health care workers I've come to realize just how much they put on the line every single day sometimes risking their own lives just to save others now more than ever we should take the time to appreciate those working and fighting to keep people healthy during these uncertain times please for the safety of yourself and everyone around you practice social distancing and stay home unless absolutely necessary see you later bye guys dress alike but you also didn't know when you signed up for this that you're gonna be working during a pandemic no I signed up to work endemic but I mean when you got into health care in the first place yeah yeah you're like you're like I someday there's gonna be a pandemic and I want to be there on the front line storm was gonna happen and it happens so quickly it's crazy out there crazy

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Published: Tue May 05 2020