00:00Hi everybody, my name is Dr. Mona Lisa Muchachuta. I'm an emergency medicine doctor in New York City.
00:06I'm making this video with my colleagues here in New York to try to help you understand how serious COVID
00:12-19 is.
00:14Hospitals are running out of medications. Some hospitals don't have protective gear for staff or family members or patients that
00:20come to the hospital.
00:21We're running out of medications, we're running out of equipment, and we're even running out of oxygen, which is something
00:27that patients that have COVID-19 need.
00:30A lot of people are only showing mild symptoms with this, and they're going out with just mild symptoms.
00:34That's a problem with this disease because they're spreading it, and they may go out, they spread it to their
00:40parents, their grandparents, and people who are dying with this.
00:43And you can think of it as your lungs being filled with fluid, like you're drowning.
00:49And once you get to that point where you're drowning, you need a ventilator to stay alive, and we're running
00:53out of that equipment for people.
00:54We don't know who's going to do well, who's not going to do well.
00:56It's like you hit a tipping point, you start drowning, and you do really poorly, and we're running out of
01:02equipment in the hospital.
01:03Nearly everybody coming to the emergency department has this, and we're getting completely overwhelmed.
01:08There's a common misconception going around that it's only the elder people in our population that's being affected.
01:14This is simply untrue.
01:15Every day we're having people, younger adults come in, who have very little comorbidities or other illnesses going on, who
01:24are being seriously affected by this illness.
01:27Affected to the point to where they have to be put on a ventilator just to breathe.
01:31The other side of the coin is we have limited staff, the same staff that is working with much, much
01:38more people.
01:40And when you have all the patients coming in, you know, we have to line them up one after the
01:47other, bed by bed, trying to intubate anywhere we possibly can to save people's lives.
01:52So that's why we're encouraging all the young people to take it seriously and self-isolate and stay with your
02:00family for now until, you know, we try to figure this thing out.
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