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CORONAVIRUS - "VIRUS PATIENTS KILLED IN NEW YORK"

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"I don't know what to do anymore." An American nurse recorded a desperate account of the situation she faces every day in a New York hospital, one of the world's hotbeds of the coronavirus pandemic, in the face of deaths she claims are not only from the virus, but from lack of treatment and even neglect, especially with African-American patients. "I know that not everyone is going to survive, I'm not that innocent. I know we're going to have a lot of victims. But these people are not dying of coronavirus ... I'm literally telling you that these people are being murdered. And nobody listens to me," said Nicole Sirotek, who worked until a few days ago at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, one of the worst-hit areas in the metropolis. Sirotek, in a 24-minute video, detailed several examples she said she witnessed where treatments were applied that ended up killing patients, such as improper intubation or defibrillation at inappropriate times. "I saw an anesthesiologist place an ET tube and rupture his esophagus and the guy choked to death on his own blood. The coronavirus did not place that tube incorrectly," he said. He also claims to have complained about the situation, but his complaints have not been heard. "Even the support organizations don't give a shit about these people. Literally, black people's lives don't matter here. And, I mean, it's pretty sad that someone who is white and lives hundreds of miles from this city cares more about these people than people in this city," said Sirotek, a Nevada nurse who moved to help with the crisis. Paramedics loading a patient into an ambulance outside Elmhurst Hospital Center during the pandemic of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in the Queens district (Reuters) Paramedics loading a patient into an ambulance outside Elmhurst Hospital Center during the pandemic of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in the Queens district (Reuters) "Nobody cares because everyone's a minority and we're in the fucking 'hood. And that's not right. I grew up very poor and I know what it's like to be completely forgotten and have no one to defend you," he lamented. In Queens, a disproportionate number of those infected are African Americans and Latinos, mostly essential workers who had no choice but to stay home. Sirotek, who has worked as a nurse for a decade, even drew a comparison to the Holocaust. "The only way to put this in context for everyone is, and this is going to be kind of an extreme example, this is really the only thing I can think of. It's like we're in Nazi Germany, and they're taking the Jews to put them in a gas chamber, and I'm the one who says 'hey, this is not good. We shouldn't be doing this. In that sense, he also criticized the attempts at understanding he receives, as he considered them insufficient. "So everyone tells me, 'Hold on, you're doing a great job. You can't save everyone. You're unbelievable. You're a great nurse. Guys, I know I'm a damn good nurse. I know I go in there and give 500% every day. I know I'm not being negligent. Okay, I fucking know. What I need is someone to help me save these people from being killed. From gross negligence and complete medical mismanagement. And no one is listening to me," he claimed. The video went viral this Wednesday, the day the United States celebrates National Nurses' Day. New York State has reported more than 330,000 infections and 25,436 deaths. Although authorities say the health system has held out, as the number of hospitalizations has always been below bed capacity, in several hospitals the situation has been serious and patients have not always received the necessary care. The authorities at Elmhurst hospital have so far failed to respond to the allegations made.

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