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The Dark Reality of Care Facilities
“Society at large doesn’t think a huge amount about carers, until they need carers.” Carers are the backbone of the social welfare system, providing mental, physical and emotional assistance to extremely vulnerable people, such as those with dementia or severe autism. They’re often paid minimum wage to face excrement, physical resistance and even death on a regular basis, with little emotional support. In this episode of Informer, we meet a former carer who explains how a lack of funding and major understaffing fails everyone, and leaves the industry open to abuse.
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How New Jersey Failed Its Veterans at a Nursing Home During COVID
During New Jersey’s first COVID-19 outbreak, veterans homes went on lockdown, but hundreds of residents, employees, and relatives got infected or died. VICE News investigates.
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Inside One New Jersey Hospital Battling Coronavirus
With rare access to a hospital slammed with COVID-19 patients, VICE News follows healthcare providers on the front lines of the crisis.
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Inside the Life of an EMT During Coronavirus
COVID-19 is the latest crisis to hit Detroit. VICE News joins a team of medics on the frontlines of the city’s pandemic.
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America’s EMT Shortage Has Rural Communities Relying on Unpaid Volunteers
There’s a crisis unfolding in rural America. While big cities are getting bigger, small town USA is shrinking. If you live in one of these rural communities, chances are you’re poorer and sicker than your urban counterpart. Across the country, towns that have less people have even less first responders Oceana, West Virginia is one of those towns. It’s surrounded by logging jobs and coal mines that provide the main source of income for the roughly 1,300 people that live there.
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Trumpcare Takes Another L
Senator Turtle Mitch McConnell can’t get Trumpcare across the finish line.
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Trumpcare Stalled
Lettuce Connoisseur and the Senate’s pet turtle Mitch McConnell talks about the stalled Trumpcare bill.
