Adrienne Adams: “Our hard workers in our hospitals were wearing garbage bags…”

“New York City, the rate of getting PPE and vaccinations into communities of color were slow walks in communities of color when it didn't have to be that way and should not have been that way. 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.” (36:34–36:41)

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