COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal ㅤ Memory Project
Amanda Rios’s Story Transcript
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Timestamp: 00:14:40.964 - 00:15:40.675
About This Clip: The victim discusses the administration of remdesi
Excerpt: "My dad's first week in the hospital, like I said, they had him on BiPAP two days after he was in the ICU, and they already started the remdesivir... my mom was very clear that she was not gonna have him intubated for any reason at all.
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Timestamp: 00:10:42.055 - 00:11:30.495
About This Clip: Victim mentions ivermectin for treatment and menti
Excerpt: "ran to a different area of town and got her a whole bunch of medication or vitamins and ivermectin. And so my mom was on ivermectin and all these different vitamins. ... And they started giving him remdesivir along with, what was the Vicinative? It was two non FDA approved drugs, that they they started giving him starting Tuesday.
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Timestamp: 00:12:25.855 - 00:12:32.495
About This Clip: Victim describes a situation that illustrates a pe
Excerpt: "I was in fear of taking her to the hospital because everything that I saw my dad going through.
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Timestamp: 00:37:53.525 - 00:38:35.300
About This Clip: Evidence of lying or dishonesty regarding the need
Excerpt: "They told her if my dad were to leave the hospital, he would have to be intubated, and he would not make the transfer, which was a big fat lie. And they kept telling her that in my you know, the the nurse... my I was like, your dad will have to be intubated if he transfers out... they were so heavily trying to push intubation, and they were trying to scare the crap out of us and lying to us that he had to be intubated.
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Timestamp: 00:16:12.605 - 00:16:59.570
About This Clip: The victim describes a situation where a charge nu
Excerpt: "a charge nurse came and, told my brother that she's breaking protocol at Matagorda Regional and and letting him come in, because she believes it's best for the patient that they're with family members... they had told my mom, the only time they let a a patient's loved one come see them is, like, is to tell them goodbye.
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Timestamp: 00:26:12.464 - 00:26:23.525
About This Clip: The narration discusses the administration of anxi
Excerpt: "My dad has never had anxiety issues or he's never used the word anxiety that he's had anxiety in the past. They embedded it in his head that he needed this anxiety medication, so he was always, like, really frazzled.
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Timestamp: 00:56:07.910 - 00:56:20.070
About This Clip: Evidence suggesting a connection between the use o
Excerpt: "we we didn't realize that his body was going downhill from the remdesivir. Now that we saw the death certificate and we saw what's on the death certificate, we realized, like, this is what probably took him out.
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Timestamp: 00:17:03.154 - 00:17:08.455
About This Clip: The victim speaks to the feelings of isolation and
Excerpt: "Other than that, he would continue to be isolated and couldn't be around us because he was COVID positive.
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Timestamp: 00:25:08.900 - 00:25:30.815
About This Clip: This section describes a conversation where the nu
Excerpt: "So there's just no regard for human life. She, was telling us about a twenty year old and a thirty year old that they both died being intubated. It's almost like she was bragging about these notches on her belt. I have these patients' ages memorized and telling us about them that, like, she doesn't know what happened. They just they just passed, but she had those memorized.
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Timestamp: 00:12:43.440 - 00:13:16.029
About This Clip: Victim expresses a feeling that something is wrong
Excerpt: "On the following day, well, actually, that same day, my ex sister-in-law ... I can go either way. I'm like, something's not right. Something's not right. And I knew my instincts were screaming at me, like, get him the heck out of here. Something's not right, when my ex sister-in-law said it can go either way just because I know COVID is not a death sentence.
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Timestamp: 00:10:14.309 - 00:10:26.730
About This Clip: Pleas For Help. The family demonstrates their atte
Excerpt: "Thursday, she started not looking well herself... I reached out to a friend of mine for a prayer request just to just to pray for my dad.
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Timestamp: 00:56:37.240 - 00:56:46.300
About This Clip: Description of "coca cola colored" urine indicatin
Excerpt: "his urine was coca cola colored. It I knew that then, but it didn't click until after he was gone that, you know, that was kidney failure was a coca cola colored urine.
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Timestamp: 00:56:48.295 - 00:56:55.835
About This Clip: The statement expresses a feeling of confusion and
Excerpt: "because I asked, but they didn't never tell us anything negative. I think it was just to for us to keep having hope. They didn't want us not to have hope.
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Timestamp: 00:58:23.594 - 00:58:24.974
About This Clip: Suggests a belief that their loved one was in a mu
Excerpt: "We thought he was just resting.
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Timestamp: 00:25:35.850 - 00:25:48.994
About This Clip: The narrator reflects on a conversation with the n
Excerpt: "Just for you to have that still in your head and tell another patient's family, it's it to me, I looked at it as bragging in her own sadistic way. It was it was a very disgusting conversation.
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Timestamp: 00:07:48.365 - 00:09:41.044
About This Clip: Isolation of victim. The victim describes how thei
Excerpt: "He was completely isolated. We were just like monkeys outside of a glass window in really cold wear air, thirty eight degrees wearing ski pants and ski jackets. ... If he was so contagious, why did they just bring up this blanket that was in his hospital room?
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Timestamp: 00:58:49.925 - 00:58:56.425
About This Clip: Reflection that details confusion regarding the pa
Excerpt: "they had a note in there, and they would tell the respiratory therapist, and, they're all on the same page that he was not being intubated.
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Timestamp: 00:24:58.664 - 00:25:07.960
About This Clip: There is a reference to the intubation decision be
Excerpt: "So she already got scolded by the doctor and still came at us the following morning to let us know that this is what's gonna happen. I'm telling you how it is.
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Timestamp: 01:08:12.494 - 01:08:32.372
About This Clip: Denied alternative treatments: The victim's family
Excerpt: We're trying we're trying. We ask we take them food just to try to give them ivermectin, and they're like, we couldn't take anything that first week. And they we asked for ivermectin. My mom asked for the hydrochloric whatever. She asked for both of those in the first hospital, and they both said, no. It's not protocol. It's only remdesivir.