Bloomberg News
@Bloomberg-News·2.8M subscribers·40.1K videos
Medical Workers in Italy Work Through NYE to Care for Covid Patients
Posted
January 1, 2021
Views
12,859
Likes
61
Comments
35
Engagement
January 1, 2021
12,859
61
35
0.75%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
1:03Now Playing(AP) Doctors and nurses in a Rome hospital spent New Year's Eve like any other day - fighting the coronavirus, as they have been doing for months.
As mild celebrations happened at midnight, few nurses looked from the window of their ward, a glimpse at the fireworks welcoming the new year 2021.
They soon had to go back to work.
In the Covid 3 Hospital of Casalpalocco, on the outskirts of Italy's capital Rome, dozens of patients are fighting for their lives.
It is a night as any other night here, as it has been for almost a year already.
The hospital was a normal clinic, but after the virus hit Italy, the first European country to be hit by the pandemic last February, it was soon turned into a Covid-only hospital.
There are three general medicine wards, one sub-intensive care unit, and three ICUs all busy with COVID-19 patients.
Here doctors and nurses are on 12-hour shifts.
There is no much time to celebrate.
Nurses looked busy and calm as usual in the long corridor of the sub-intensive ward where most patients lie in bed in a dim light, in rooms with two beds each.
In one of the ICUs, the staff were giving medicines, checking respiratory machines, filling in medical records.
Vaccines are on their way, although it will take months to vaccinate most of the population. Doctor Petrassi says mass vaccination is the only hope.
"My thought for the new year, the best wishes I could tell myself and share with those who are around me, it's to get out of this nightmare as soon as possible," Petrassi said.
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world.
To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app.
Have a story to tell? Fill out this survey for a chance to have it featured on Bloomberg Quicktake
Connect with us on…
Breaking News on YouTube
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
