Health care workers still don't have the PPE they need as they care for Covid-19 patients.
These volunteers stepped in to help.
These volunteers stepped in to help.
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00:00Thank you very much.
00:04How's the second week been?
00:06Let's pick it up. We already have three floors closed,
00:08the units are open, the units are full.
00:30Hey.
00:39Nice to meet you.
00:41Thank you so much. I tremendously appreciate it.
00:43The respirator that we got in our first kit,
00:46I used for many shifts during COVID.
00:50The additional gown, the hand sanitizer,
00:53it's been all put to great use.
01:00When it comes to medical facilities,
01:08for example, in lower income neighborhoods
01:10or serving underserved communities,
01:13oftentimes they don't have access to the funds
01:15they would need in order to basically equip
01:18their staff or even nursing homes,
01:20as a really good example,
01:22where the healthcare workers are still struggling
01:24with PPE and don't have the same access.
01:26I feel like we know so much about you
01:29and like, yeah, right?
01:37Thank you so much.
01:38Yeah, of course, yeah.
01:39Colleagues are good? Morale's good?
01:43Morale, I think, is the same.
01:44I think a lot of us are tired
01:46because we've been working throughout the pandemic,
01:49but we haven't stopped.
01:52In the health centers, that is still a problem
01:56as far as finding PPE and having the proper amount
02:01and the proper kinds of N95
02:03so that when we are seeing patients,
02:05because now we are seeing more patients in the clinic live
02:09and we're in the room with the patients,
02:11so it is still a problem for us to have to use N95.
02:16After I recovered, obviously, I was really grateful,
02:19but I also heard a lot of stories from my cousins
02:22who were really concerned about getting COVID,
02:24being that they were healthcare workers.
02:26I have seven cousins in the Tri-State area that are nurses.
02:29A lot of them are in the ICU.
02:31A lot of them are in the ER.
02:33So I wanted to try to help them.
02:35So I'm packing a PPE supply kit right now,
02:38and this is a multivitamin.
02:39And that is going to help me get through the day.
02:42So I'm going to go right into prep.
02:44And I'm generalizing a little bit.
02:46So I'll go ahead and put the tablet in.
02:48I'll go ahead and do a little bit of prepping.
02:50And then I'm going to go in and do your microbiome.
02:53I'll put your needs and health processing in.
02:56And then after I'm done with that,
02:59I'll go in and then I'll go to the lab again.
03:01So I'm packing a PP supply kit right now and this is what we put into it. We have two face shields,
03:08reusable isolation gown, reusable surgical cap here, protective goggles, glasses, also protective,
03:17five ear savers, two of these 3M N95 masks.
03:31So
03:53every day when I go to work, I feel like a sheep going to slaughter. My colleagues and I are writing
03:59our last will and testament. I'm 28 years old. I remember reading and hearing all this news
04:05about healthcare workers not having the proper access to PPE and I just remember thinking how
04:11unfathomable it was to essentially have all these essential workers on the front lines
04:16treating COVID patients, potentially putting themselves at risk as well as putting their
04:23loved ones at risk when they went back home and them not having access to PPE. So for me,
04:28that's personally why I was motivated and driven to co-found PRI. Yeah, you guys have like almost
04:33hundreds of people here. It's amazing. It's great. Every time we come here, we're like,
04:37oh, how did you find out about us? They're like, oh, we're not even told. I hope you guys don't
04:40mind me telling everybody. No, no. We actually, over at PRI, we call you a champion, a PRI champion,
04:45because honestly, that's what you've been. I've done over 400 deliveries myself and I always asked
04:51him, how are you doing? What I've heard has been so inspiring, you know? Yeah, they're really scared,
04:57there's a lot of anxiety that they go through. Some of the healthcare workers I've supported
05:00have came down with COVID themselves, but they always remember why they became healthcare
05:06workers in the first place, because they genuinely care about the community. And we just wanted to
05:10show to them that there is another community out there that does care about them as well.