America's covid-19 death toll is higher than anywhere else in the world. The richest country in the world is having trouble holding things together in the face of the COVID pandemic. To find out why, RT Documentary visits the #COVID hotspots of New York City and Florida. There, ordinary people and analysts, homeless people and nurses talk about the underlying social conditions causing the chaos.
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00:00 - Introduction
2:37 - New York’s protest movement amid the pandemic
5:44 - How to maintain social distance during protests
8:01 - Why was New York hit so badly by COVID-19?
12:22 - Overcrowded homeless shelters - a breeding ground for coronavirus
15:26 - Coronavirus crisis from a homeless man’s standpoint
16:51 - Mass-grave burials on Hart Island
19:14 - Diana Torres, a New York nurse
21:37 - Healthcare workers forced to wear trash bags
23:49 - Florida, America’s new COVID hotbed
25:00 - ‘Shame on you’, Ron DeSantis
28:21 - Masks - to wear or not to wear
29:48 - Flourishing funeral homes?
33:00 - Elmhurst, New York’s virus epicentre
37:27 - A $400,000 medical bill
43:35 - Inside Brownsville, New York’s most dangerous neighbourhood
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