Name: Low Pay, High Risk: Nursing Home Workers Confront Coronavirus | NYT News
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T04:34:15.000Z
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“You may have just that one patient with the coronavirus

that come into your facility, and you don't know.

I can go to work today,  wind up feeding them.

'Oh, they have that virus.' And I've already been exposed.

Nursing Assistants, CNA's,  we're the closest ones,

has always been difficult and low paying.

TV announcers: “Across the country, nursing homes are

“One elder care facility, where 19 residents have died —”

“In Palo Alto —” “In the New Orleans area —”

“In DuPage County —” “In Sacramento County.”

“Covid-19 spreading through our most vulnerable population.”

We met up with caregivers from nursing homes

who are most likely to die if they get the virus.

“So can you do your job without touching people, or without —”

“It's almost like a holding and cleaning at the same time.”

“Well, you could be feeding that patient or you could

be doing something and the patient starts coughing.

It's too late to turn around, you already

You know, you just run to the bathroom, wash your face

If this video were filmed at a different time, you'd

be seeing footage of these workers with their patients.

But nursing homes are closed to visitors right now

we filmed from afar, following recommendations

can't maintain that kind of distance in their work.

And now, shortages of protective gear like masks

are putting them at risk, not just for getting the virus

“If you want to speak,  press star 6.”

“We're running out of supplies of masks in our building.

And trying to take care of these patients

without us also getting sick is worrisome.”

“We're rationing right now, masks, protective gear.

But it's like, what happens if we run out?

“They gave us the N95 mask,  and told us to maintain it.

by accident or something, staple and reuse it.”

“So you're actually cleaning the N95 masks in between uses?”

“You like wipe off the outside of it or

“The outside, the inside and just let it

air dry, and put it back in a Ziploc bag for the next day.”

So we've been cautious ever since she's been born.”

“I am very concerned of taking it home.

My mom, she's diabetic, and my dad also just

The pay for this work is low: In the U.S.,

the median salary is less than $30,000 a year.

I work 16 hours, that's not including driving time.

And I'm not the only one — majority of my co-workers,

on top of taking care of my mom and my grandmother.

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