Name: COVID-19のその他の最前線。灯りを点け続け、コミュニティを運営するために｜ナイトライン (The other frontlines of COVID-19: Keeping the lights on and communities operational | Nightline)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:48:39.000Z
Duration: 11 min 6 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：新型コロナウイルス,新型肺炎,COVID-19

Leticia night suits up but Plain View Hospital in suburban New York, ready to help save lives.

She's not here to hand out medication or perform surgery, but she is a key fighter in the war against Kobe.

Very epicenter of this country's outbreak.

A lot of the work that you do is often unseen.

We could usually just go in, get it's on ember out.

Leticia works in environmental service is cleaning and sanitizing patient's rooms for unit almost entirely.

You're walking into a hot zone every day, every day.

I hate to say this, but have you seen deceased patients?

I've seen patients where one day that's walking on face time with their families, and the next day I'll come into work and have you brush size You.

The single mother of three says her family would rather she be home, safe and far away from the virus.

How do you explain to your seven year old how and why?

When my father was diagnosed and I was telling my Children like what?

This is why Mommy goes to work so that Grandpa could be in a room where is clean and he can get better.

Laetitia is among the millions of essential person in the U.

S who show up every single day there unsung, often unseen heroes manning the other front line.

They keep the power on trash, collected hospitals, clean and operational, even help us bury our dead.

Despite invisible, potentially deadly danger, they face Melody Ara Vina's husband.

Rolando was one of those frontline workers helping keep people connected.

If you had to die Thio to save other people's lives, you know I'm going to try to make amends with that, Rolando worked as a tell come field technician for Verizon, a volunteer basketball coach and a doting father of five, her twin, who is positive, Kobe Thio, with an abbot's part in research.

And you don't give a train with hurry At every morning I get up extra early and their seven minute workout and take it to the track by her school on the weekends and just prepare her for these races.

He was a real girl, done, Yes, my husband has a real girl That was a real girl.

On March 11th he was sent to a New York City hospital to help it prepare for a potential surgeon.

How did he see his role as an essential worker during this time?

You know, during the this time when he was working, he was very concerned with his job alone.

And no, there's no way to know exactly how he contracted the virus.

But a little more than a week later, she says he started to feel sick when he got steak up that March 19.

On March 29th his twin girls 10th birthday Rolando died.

And so, Amira, what do you remember from that day?

I woke up and a chocolate company dropped their table.

What were the last things that you said to each other?

Text me if you need anything, you know, you got this, you're gonna beat this And you know, he just looked at me and he said, Mel, I never knew a love like this before and I love you so much, Verizon, Rolando's employers said in a statement to ABC News.

Our deepest sympathies air with Rolando Sonny are a Venus family and friends.

Our team is grieving alongside them, knowing that our team members are still in the field.

We have taken every measure and dedicated every resource available to keeping our frontline workers safe and secure as we keep our nation connected.

Just the fact that the he's an essential worker.

But when it came down to the health system, you know, it was just, you know, a statistic point somewhere, you know, really, really, really hurts, because these people are out there risking their lives every day.

For many other essential workers, balancing that risk means trading time at home with their families for round the clock life in the office, instead of leaving working, going home.

This is my converted office into my living quarters to New York.

Electric grid employees have turned their office spaces into bedrooms, spending as many as 30 days away from their families.

It's just surreal feeling that when you get up in the morning and you go right to your desk, the one thing that you find out is you really come together as a family.

And for some, being sequestered means being away during life's special moments.

I want, like to say Happy birthday story.

He motivates me to keep going, and I pray every day before come onto the road that God sent me while I'm out there.

Octavia French is one of at least 235 sanitation workers in the nation's capital, still gathering in the early hours of the morning to make their rounds collecting trash and recycling.

A lot of people don't expect females on the back.

So I get a lot of props for hanging on about the truck.

Some people leave us like snap bags or drawings Like yesterday.

Being an essential worker in the time of Cove.

It has changed how much you're seen and appreciated.

It made me feel like I'm a first responder.

When you first started hearing about how contagious Cove it is, did it ever occur to you not to come to work?

You got me all day in the footwork, doing the footwork and taking extra precautions with masks and double gloves.

But social distancing is tough in the cab of a garbage truck.

So in the truck, you're not six feet distance.

So we make sure the windows down that she really does represent what that part of our department public works.