Asked for its record a bit of her life during the pandemic. Hi my name is maria out and she. Talking to you. Which is a global epicenter of. Atomic so this is this is my 15 month old saw and know whos playing by whos solved as are most of the other kids in the park and normally there wouldnt be a single patch of grass available to sit on the little erie out here so quarantining your is a little bizarre because theres theres like 2 worlds right so were in a world where we feel very isolated were working from home but were still working and then theres this like other part of new york that we dont see when you look at like the map of how it is politically some of the wealthier neighborhoods its been far more contained in the numbers. Are much lower than some of the poor neighborhoods its like 2 different worlds like i dont know whats going on over there or talk to be honest. I got married i moved to new york 10 years ago before that i was it toronto thats where i grew up or since i got t
Problems. To work on wall street we live in park slope in brooklyn. So you go to brooklyn and you see like 5000000. 00 apartments and one block over those like a project where its like people dont have jobs theyve been impacted badly because theres no hospitals there were fortunate that we both work in technology its very easy for us to work at home if you have a blue collar job you got to go and those are very blue collar neighborhoods. Just 2 days ago good family friend he passed away from coded he was in his sixtys and his daughter in law is position with him for i suppose she brought it home everyone got sick but with mild symptoms and he got sick you know i were in a situation where. Troll people are just kind of walking in and making sure that people are keeping their distance. We actually wanted to get out because everywhere else if you look at the trajectory chart up but not like. Right at new york it is like a hospital so we create you know what if you just get out so in the m
During that time. I think its not. In the most simplistic way like help terrorists when youre saying that matters well im scared of getting sick im scared of getting my son sad and scared of anyone in my family getting sick. I was carried out like crying that being and right. There a sense i wake up every morning or my new day in to be great and then by the end of the day i like. That today and i feel like thats our whole i slowly closing in on their evil air does it maria this is this is a very big and in the redbook in hospital god is a very i do put the body in the in a t will ya. Please dayside this is a real. After talking to maria i looked at new yorks most affected areas and just like she said they were predominantly poor neighborhoods at the top of that list was impressed me its. Perhaps a bit here on parlor which is on the way to the school and their jihad barracks moving bodies ive tracked thats right city the city usually has been growing about 47 ads are they now every day
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Around the country. So when is it safe to reopen our economy . One leading medical expert joining us from boston in a moment. Could there be a second wave . We will talk to an Infectious Disease doctor in the second half of the program. Our phone lines are open. If you are a medical professional or medical student, 2027488002. We begin with the numbers from john hopkins university. Now around the world 3. 8 million cases of coronavirus. The death toll is now expected to surpass 267,000. Joining us from boston is dr. Jeremy faust an Emergency Room Physician at Brigham Womens hospital. Thank you for being with us. We want to begin with your op ed in the Washington Post with this headline the metric that could tell us when it is safe to reemerge. What is that metric . Dr. Faust the metric that has been discussed the least but matters the most is what is called excess mortality, or excess deaths. That is simply the number of people who are dying in comparison to the usual rates we know abo