COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal ㅤ Memory Project

Lisa Namnoum’s Story Transcript

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About This Clip: The mention of being part of a trial for remdesivi

Excerpt: "Yes. Yes. They were doing trials, and they they wanted him to be in the trial. So he must have already been on the remdesivir for at least a few days at that point.

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Timestamp: 00:42:50.554 - 00:42:59.070

About This Clip: Victim reflects on the loss of trust in healthcare

Excerpt: "We're supposed to be able to trust our health care providers. We're supposed to be able to trust our government to look out for our best interest, and and so people just assume they're doctors. They're gonna take care of them.

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Timestamp: 00:17:42.390 - 00:18:00.154

About This Clip: The segment discusses pressure to consider a DNR (

Excerpt: "So then that's when they started talking to me about DNR. They're like, you should really consider a DNR. I'm like, what? I'm like, are you kidding? What? I'm like, we're we're talking about a fifty eight year old man that with no prior health issues. Are you kidding me? Like, have you given up already? I mean, I was kinda freaking out.

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Timestamp: 00:05:57.805 - 00:06:19.490

About This Clip: Victim expresses fear and concern about hospitaliz

Excerpt: "when I put him in when I left him at the emergency room, I, like, stood in the street. My car was in the street. I didn't even care. I stood in the street pressed to the glass, just watching him sit in the wheelchair in the waiting room... what if I never see him again?

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Timestamp: 00:28:17.315 - 00:28:26.775

About This Clip: Denied alternative treatments: The victim explicit

Excerpt: "I asked them if he could have plasma. I asked them if he could have hydroxychloroquine. I asked them if he could have it in ivermectin because I had reached researched stuff, you know, that was possible. No. Not protocol. No. Not protocol. No. Not protocol.

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Timestamp: 00:03:30.685 - 00:03:38.784

About This Clip: Victim discusses being denied alternative treatmen

Excerpt: "Nobody said, jeez. Maybe you should go get some plasma. Gosh. Maybe we should try giving you some hydroxychloroquine or anything like that. You know, they just sent us home.

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About This Clip: Pervasive sense of wrongdoing: The speaker express

Excerpt: "I have, you know, obviously, the legal authority to make the decisions, but you guys are young adults, and I want you to be on board with whatever decision I make. And I looked at them and I said, I hope you guys understand that just living might not be good enough now.

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Timestamp: 00:18:44.880 - 00:18:58.654

About This Clip: The speaker observes and believes that the treatme

Excerpt: "I could start to clearly see that the treatment was killing him, not the COVID, because then he started to get really swollen. Like, his like, hands and his arms and his legs.

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Timestamp: 00:42:26.744 - 00:42:35.280

About This Clip: Accusations of systematic wrongdoing; there is a d

Excerpt: "It's a crime that we're sitting here having to do this for the purpose of preventing our nation's hospitals from killing more people.

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About This Clip: Victim describes a moment of severe dehydration le

Excerpt: "And what I quickly realized was he had gotten severely dehydrated.

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Timestamp: 00:30:30.490 - 00:30:36.430

About This Clip: Pleas For Help: The victim describes their despera

Excerpt: "I was desperate to, like, get as much information as I could possibly get. So I took pictures.

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Timestamp: 00:43:11.785 - 00:43:15.005

About This Clip: Commentary on guilt and the process of navigating

Excerpt: "I hope you don't ever hold any kind of guilt because you did nothing wrong.

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Timestamp: 00:05:00.694 - 00:05:09.754

About This Clip: Victim reflects on their belief that the hospital

Excerpt: "Now I'm wondering if that was a mistake, because I think the dehydration was really, kind of, you know, making him weak and more susceptible.

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Timestamp: 00:09:48.029 - 00:09:55.889

About This Clip: The victim's condition rapidly declined after trea

Excerpt: "Every day, he was getting worse, quickly. Like, really quickly. I was pretty shocked at how quickly he was getting worse.

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Timestamp: 00:09:16.315 - 00:09:19.534

About This Clip: Denied informed consent regarding participation in

Excerpt: "He did not consent to being in the trial. He did not want to.

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Timestamp: 00:29:23.875 - 00:29:41.019

About This Clip: Emotional impact: The victim conveys a strong emot

Excerpt: "I actually began to be afraid that he was gonna live. I mean and that that's I wanted him to live. Don't get me wrong. But I didn't want him to live like that, you know, and because I was afraid he would hate me for letting that happen, you know, like, for what if he was never the same?

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Timestamp: 00:19:29.285 - 00:19:42.269

About This Clip: The discussion of DNR orders again re-emphasizes t

Excerpt: "So as soon as I got there, the physician assistant stops me in the hallway, and she says, we should talk about a DNR. I'm like, what? I mean, they they still keep talking about this.

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Timestamp: 00:41:05.260 - 00:41:36.019

About This Clip: Evidence of abuse and neglect; the victim's uncle

Excerpt: "Yeah. They, yeah, they tried to say that my uncle who passed, from sepsis, they said he got an infection from his, from his catheter. And I'm like, no. He didn't. Y'all gave him my investigator the very first hour he was in the hospital. Mhmm. And he turned septic. And my aunt died, her you know, his wife from kidney failure. And that's what's on the death certificate. And, like, they never they didn't have sepsis or kidney failure before they were or kidney problems at all before they were investigating.

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Timestamp: 00:29:08.039 - 00:29:19.634

About This Clip: Victim's understanding of harm: The victim express

Excerpt: "Like, you can't possibly be right after that. Right? You can't possibly come out right after being, you know, in an induced coma on all that, you know, those heavy drugs after all that time.

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Timestamp: 00:13:51.514 - 00:14:08.529

About This Clip: The victim indicates feeling like the anxiety of t

Excerpt: "I felt like the anxiety he was having was part of the reason why he was having trouble, getting as much oxygen as he needed. And I really felt strongly that if I could have been in there and maybe talked to him and talked him down and helped him a little bit that maybe he could have avoided it.