ier, people send you $10? i m saying covid is real. i m telling you the truth, not the truth you wanted to hear. sonny says dark jokes bring some relief from a darker reality like that her own health is at risk. her fellow nurse hazel bailey got covid last august and was on a ventilator for 42 days. it s real. covid is real. i nearly died from it, and will probably have issues from it for the rest of my life. i have family that they believe that it s real, but they re not concerned with taking the vaccine. they understand some people get it and it s not bad. but i got it, and it was bad. and now we re seeing this new variant hit and it s really hitting arkansas.
i get called a crisis actor all the time. is my thing to respond to indicate comments? put $10 moo nigh covid account, i made about $1-. reporter: wait, really? yes. reporter: people send you $10. yeah, i m not a crisis actor. covid is real, like surprise. so i ll tell you the truth. not the truth you wanted to hear. reporter: sunny says dark jokes bring some relief from a darker reality, that her own health is at risk. her fellow nurse hazel bailey got covid and was on a ventilator for 42 days. it s real. covid is real. i nearly died from it and will probably have issues from it for the rest of my life. i have family, they believe that it s real but they are not concerned with taking the vaccine. they understand some people get it and it s not bad, but i got
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By Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN
Sunny worked as a nurse on a Covid-19 floor of a hospital at the height of the pandemic. The work was hard, but what made it surreal was doing it while living in small town Arkansas, where many people, even some in her own family, said the virus was overblown “just the flu.”
“It’s extremely difficult to watch so many people die, and then have people tell you on Facebook or in Walmart that you’re a liar,” Sunny said. Sometimes that would come from the loved ones of the patients she was taking care of.
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By Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN
Sunny worked as a nurse on a Covid-19 floor of a hospital at the height of the pandemic. The work was hard, but what made it surreal was doing it while living in small town Arkansas, where many people, even some in her own family, said the virus was overblown “just the flu.”
“It’s extremely difficult to watch so many people die, and then have people tell you on Facebook or in Walmart that you’re a liar,” Sunny said. Sometimes that would come from the loved ones of the patients she was taking care of.
if i have a patient come in that wasn t vaccinated, i m still going to treat them to the best of my ability, but i do know nurses who had to quit because they don t have it in them to do that. a lot of us would give you a shirt off their back to help a stranger. a lot of people being anti-covid and anti-vaccine is a product of the way that we were raised here. but they re not bad people. elle reeve is with us now. this report of yours is tremendous. i think it really brings the humanity to the discussion about vaccinations that is often lacking. and i just wonder having spoken with these nurses, do they have any ideas on how to convince their neighbors to go ahead and get vaccinated? or do they say there s no way to? so, hazel bailey, the nurse who was on a ventilator, when we went to her house, she had fox