Adrienne Adams: “I had to take my own father across city lines into a Long…”

“Our hard workers in our hospitals were wearing garbage bags under Andrew Cuomo. Didn't have to be that way. I had to take my own father across city lines into a Long Island hospital because paramedics advised us not to take him to Elmhurst Hospital because that was the epicenter of the epicenter. Those are facts. I'm not making that. But that is the story that some people do not remember or don't want to remember who was leading us during the time that we were experiencing in our communities the highest rate of death across the city.” (36:43–36:59)

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