COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal ㅤ Memory Project
Gone Too Soon, Traca’s Story Transcript
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Timestamp: 00:30:46.539 - 00:31:04.394
About This Clip: The speaker asserts that medical professionals are
Excerpt: "what I now know is empirical truth is that these people are killing our loved ones for money, and they are doing it with everybody in the world's eyes closed. Well, I'm here to open up some eyes and to open up some ears, and a lot of us are. So I'm sure that we will see justice.
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Timestamp: 00:19:49.839 - 00:19:51.759
About This Clip: Evidence of being pressured regarding DNR; the vic
Excerpt: "They kept asking me if I would sign a DNR.
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Timestamp: 00:10:31.115 - 00:11:00.095
About This Clip: Evidence of mistreatment and emotional impact rega
Excerpt: "The very next day, September twenty third, he was moved from isolation to a step down, quote, unquote, regular room because he didn't require a higher level of care all of a sudden... So we ran with that. Now I did see him for forty five minutes during that eighteen day period.
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Timestamp: 00:35:08.655 - 00:35:25.809
About This Clip: Discussing denial of alternative treatments and th
Excerpt: "They didn't give us options. They ran with the protocol that they are being paid to run with. They didn't give us options of any other medication, any other treatment... How can a sedated man who can't make medical decisions for himself refuse medication? How can I refuse medication if I'm not allowed to be at his bedside?
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Timestamp: 00:20:46.609 - 00:21:33.125
About This Clip: The family member expresses the distressing experi
Excerpt: "What I find interesting is I was reading through his records... the note started saying on family issues... wife is hypervigilant, may be in violation of HIPAA because she's sharing information on Facebook.
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Timestamp: 00:25:32.944 - 00:25:40.559
About This Clip: Victim discusses DNR pressure and possibly unethic
Excerpt: "I asked him, I said, do we need to be concerned about amputation if he's not gonna have blood circulation? He said that's not something we need to be concerned with.
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Timestamp: 00:17:31.390 - 00:19:48.664
About This Clip: Evidence of neglect and lack of basic care; the vi
Excerpt: "He wasn't sleeping. He wasn't eating. They weren't letting him get out of bed. His hygiene wasn't being taken care of until I got there during the day, and I would help him brush his teeth, brush his hair, clean up...the oxygen hose was wrapped around him and pulled out of his nose, and his IV bag was completely dry. He also had defecated himself, and it was dry. ...They blamed him for decreasing desaturating because he wrapped he he wouldn't keep his oxygen on. ...he invoked his right to refuse all treatment for a period of six hours...because there's nothing on his death certificate about a cardiology cardiac issue... October fourth, they moved him to a ventilator. They bullied him into going on the ventilator.
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Timestamp: 00:15:00.595 - 00:15:21.250
About This Clip: The victim mentions being overmedicated and having
Excerpt: "mistreated, malnourished, overmedicated. He'd had no, he had given no permission. I had given no permission for any of this. He was physically abused with the bruising that he had, and that was just one of a few injuries that he would sustain throughout his stay. He was in the hospital a total of forty two days.
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Timestamp: 00:22:54.960 - 00:22:59.700
About This Clip: The family member reveals emotional distress over
Excerpt: "The day he died, they turned him prone for about forty minutes... It's the only time he was ever off his back.
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Timestamp: 00:12:23.605 - 00:13:00.440
About This Clip: Evidence of neglect and lack of basic care, as the
Excerpt: "his left arm from shoulder to wrist had a bruise. They call it a deep tissue injury, and it was dark purple from elbow or I'm sorry, from shoulder to wrist. I said, what is that from? And they told me it's where they left the blood pressure cuff on too tight for an extended period of time. So he was sedated, restrained to a bed, inflicted injury, malnourished, he wasn't being fed, heavily medicated, all because I wasn't permitted to be there. Because rest assured, had I been permitted to be his advocate at bedside, none of that would have occurred.
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Timestamp: 01:02:36.945 - 01:02:50.420
About This Clip: The victim expresses a realization about the negli
Excerpt: "Money speaks. Unfortunately, that's the society that we live in. As many dollar signs as they've attached to this protocol, I understand why some people can be bought by that, but you can't put a price on a human life.
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Timestamp: 00:20:15.615 - 00:20:32.075
About This Clip: The victim’s family member describes feeling isola
Excerpt: "They whisked him away and didn't say two words to me. One nurse said, you can go home now. We'll call you whenever there's an update... I was not allowed to see him.
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Timestamp: 00:22:11.839 - 00:22:46.595
About This Clip: The family member feels manipulated regarding the
Excerpt: "I told them, as far as changing his code status... What I agreed to is no chest compressions... All that he stops breathing, that his heart stops beating... they never used anything.
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Timestamp: 00:08:37.105 - 00:09:04.434
About This Clip: Evidence of neglect and lack of basic care, specif
Excerpt: "They kept him on restrained to the bed for nine days straight against his will, against my desire, and against the infectious disease specialist's recommendation. She recommended that he be set up in a chair, that he be laid prone, that he be allowed, if tolerable, to get up and to walk, if possible, to be released from isolation, and to be released from the sedation. Nobody listened to her.
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Timestamp: 00:24:56.054 - 00:25:17.660
About This Clip: Victim discusses neglect and lack of basic care, s
Excerpt: "In the ICU, they put a band around his forehead, and I asked them, what is that band for? ... So they took it off, and he had two huge, deep tissue injuries that were just oozing blood.
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Timestamp: 00:11:08.779 - 00:11:22.815
About This Clip: The narrative implies a pervasive sense of wrongdo
Excerpt: "he was yelling and cursing a little bit, but he wasn't cursing at me or at staff. He was just yelling. And the charge nurse wrote down that wife caused patient to become agitated. No further visits allowed.
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Timestamp: 00:07:27.250 - 00:07:54.159
About This Clip: Evidence of denial of informed consent regarding m
Excerpt: "I found out he was given not one, but two courses of remdesivir after he had already been given that medication. And there was nothing there was no say so we could have. He he could not... without his consent or knowledge, without my consent or knowledge, and we didn't know what the ramifications were until I started doing some research and digging around.
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Timestamp: 01:00:44.800 - 01:02:18.954
About This Clip: The victim describes her husband's treatment in th
Excerpt: "I entrusted these people with my husband's, not just his life, but his livelihood. They were to repair him, not to destroy him, but they they got that mixed up...I would have thought there's no way our hospitals are torturing people because that's what it is. It's a torture.
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Timestamp: 00:26:20.744 - 00:26:37.640
About This Clip: The victim's statements about being unable to find
Excerpt: "I can't find a lawyer to save my soul. I've been rejected from seven so far. Every one of them says it's because of the immunity laws that are in place. One one did say he's a small practice, and he said, if I was not a small practice, I would consider taking your case because this is just he said it's out and out murder is what he said.
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Timestamp: 00:16:05.825 - 00:16:21.509
About This Clip: The victim recounts facing conflicting medical adv
Excerpt: "But every time he tried to do exercises or tried to get up, his oxygen would drop a little. So he had one doctor telling him, you need to get up and get moving and get yourself back into having some energy. And then he would have another doctor saying, if you get out of that bed, we're gonna have to restrain.