Children are without a home. The last time that i had my own bed was like three months ago. Narrator andiner husband is ce detention. An gent plea from behind bars, donlet us die. Nartor these two stories now, on this special edition ofn fron frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbswe station from v like you. Thank you. And by the corporation forbl broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdanc and ul world. More information at macfound. Org. The Ford Foundation working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worlide. At fordfoundation. Org. Additional supports provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in jourlism. The park foundation,d dedica heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The john a Helen Glessner family trust. Supporting trustworthy inspires. M that informs and and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. Marvin speaking spanish siren blaring indistinct chatter monitor beeping monitor beeping indistinct chatter we need mediumsized allevyn pad cut in half. Oy. Bring me a clean specimen bag for me to put this in. Zullys case was very uniques foecause this was one of our first few ses with a mom who was extremely sick and covidpositive. Was the baby going to be result of covid, too . Fected as a we didot know that at that time. There was not a lot of da there. Now we know that most babies dont get extremely sick with not aware of that. Time we were the baby did have several tests done, and he teste negative. But we knew that mom was potive, and then we had to safely execute on a plan for him to go home to a sa environment. Billys gonna check your temperature. Any symptoms . Okay. Marvin i said, listen, marvin, i am willing to help 100 . I really did not know this family. I mean, zully just came to the united states, i think, a year ago, and marvin has been here for six years. And junior is my bilingual student. And thats how i met them. When we were able to test marvii and , they were both covid19positive. This baby wod have not stood a chance if he went home with his father with covid19 and junior. Hes just a preemie baby. I went to the hospital with marvin. Oh, my god. Hi, baby. Luciana speaking spanish it wast easy because, you know, he saw his son for the go near him. And he couldnt even sud it reay broke my heart. After going thro a big trauma not even knowing if your wife was gonna make it. I took the baby home. Right, baby . baby fussing hold it, hold it, hold i there you go, you can trust. Right, buddy . I was thinking ias staying with the baby for one and two days, and now i am three weeks. indistinct chatter so how many patnts do we have now . We have. Nine. Zullywho is young compared to most of our patients, she was brought down to the icu knowing that her oxygen level had gotter prusly worse. We decided that we were gonna have to intubate her or put herg a breatacne to help support her oxygen. monitor beeping this patient over there, when i started him, he was on 100 . The night nurse gave me my assignment, ich was zully, and she said, shes 30 years old. She just had a baby. Shes really sic she was super stable overnight, and shes gon be your only tient right now, so yoonly can. You only have to focus on her. Sickest patients on the floor at that time, and i thohe very well might not make it rough this. And that wasthat was monitor bping indistinct chatter while she was intubated, she a good majority of the time actually side down on a fancy bed that aually takes you and turns you completely over. So when youre on that, she was completely in a ma. In my head i said shes im not gonna let appen. Y time. Shes okay . Okay. Can i have the patientsrs fit and last name, please . Zully. Ah. both laughing he was in the icu almost three weeks total, i think. She was on the ventilator for about 18 days, and then another day or two afterwards as we were waking her uand regaining her strength. dialogue indistinct we got you. It takes a while toheir body back up and running. Do you need to rest . Its an unfortunate consequence of being in the icu. Orits something we try to through with our patients. All right. Ooh. Ooh good job. laughs patients who have sd from being in the icu. monitors beeping zully speaking spanish most people who were in the icu take weeks if not months to gain her strength back. I imagine thats what shes going through. But most people will tell you even their mind isnt back wherewhere they were. Ly z calina speaking spanish m we met zully andvin at the very beginning, when she was hospitalized. When zully was fighting for her life, um, we had people going every day to provide food to him and to junior. Toys to him. Er was a phone call every day. How are you doing . What else do you need . speaking spanish mmhmm. Stamford is a very unique community in which, you kn, almost 35 of e population is foreignborn. speaking spanish and the pandemic was effecting families like zullys disproportionately. The whole pandemic and how it evolved and how fast it all happened, this is still hard to comprehend for all of us. So many people were losing their jobs. So many families did not have af way d their kids or pay the rent. Ty so the commut large really rallied. Hes a very goobaby. Here, buddy. Hes okay. Hes okay . S ht a little hot. I came here wn i was 17 years old from brazil. My husband was an illegal imgrant. He came here when he was 19 years old. And look at m now. I me, he is an immigrant who worked his way up. Its the american dream. phone rings marvin hi. Luciana marvin luciana call on hold. I know. Its that time, buddy. I know. Its okay. baby crying phone rings oh, it looks like the hospital. Hello . All of a sudden, i get a phone call, and its a doctor from the hospital, and they just tell me, oh, uh, zully is being discharged today at 4 00. Pick her up. S to be here to okay, were sending her home, but her husband was not. E you knowcovid19 positive positive and the babys covid19 negative. So. Ho i was in when i received that phone call because i really thought she wagoing to still be hospitalized for one more week at least. But if it was a person with insunce, then they would probably send her to a rehab, when do we have to pick her up . How does this work . I mean, imim just a teacher. N i don how this works. I needed to pick her up at 4 00. And i looked at my watch and im like, wait a second, its 2 45. I am sorry. Youre telling me youre giving me one hour to make arrangements for a paent who has been in an induced coma for aa month . You cannot discharge this woman in one hour. Ry i am sor, i just cant. crying how to get zully home became e entire project for all of us. I mean, their hoemed like thousands of miles away. So i called the ambulance, i made the appointment. I told him to be there as late as possible to give e to prepare. Then we went over to the house to wait for her to arrive. speaking spanish eh . Mmhmm. Catalina junior speaking spanish aurora theyre coming now. Oh. Luciana ah, zully cheering, applause zully yay, zully welcome home. Bievenida, zully. laughs mommy . Zully good . Thats it . Tnk you, guys. Thank you. Youre welcome. Zully unior aurora ready . Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you happy bthday baby neysel, happy birthday to you. Luciana aurora ll bye, guys. Hasta luego. Zully marvin okay, ready . Marvin okay, all set. Marvin okay, let me try it. scres ya, papi. Ya, ya. Marvin ai. Ya, ya. groans os you agot it. Marvin thankou for holding. Your call is very important to us. Si hold playing okay, you had two testsone. And one was the nasal and the other one wathe blood work. The nasal swab came back. The swab is positive. Marvin junior is the same, also. Mmhmm. Marvin zully crying marvin exhales marvin zully the whole testing was so complicated and so convoluted. I and i think thjust so typical of the challenges that you ce when you have a language barrier, when you have a cultural barrier, when youre scared. Are very, very hopeful that her rapid fast test results in an hour and a half, they will give us a call. Yes. Zully baby crying oh, i know, i know. Oh, this is so hard. And todays goa be a very special day because youre gonna meet your mommy and your daddy and your brother. makes laughing sound laug i love when he does that. Its like i was his mommy for the last fiveandahalf weeks. And i gave him as much love as i woulgive to my own son. So this is a mess right now because were trying to pack everything for zully. Theres some extra donated milk, his little stroller. Catalina marvin oh, his diapers and. Ohmy god, ay. My baby. , luciare here. laughter oh, my god. Zully liana hello, papi. Shh, shh, shh. Shh, shh, shh. indistinct chatter in phoneng aurora luciana aurora zully luciana aurora zully aurora zully phone rging sound distorted, breaking up , sound distorteaking up phone beeps, call disconnects baby fussing f coming up next on this special edition ntline her husband is locked up in immigrant detention and her children have no place to call home. In collaboration with the Marshall Project and the pulitzer center, undocented in the pandemic begins right now. In new jersey, over the past three days, deaths have doubled. This morng President Trump officially issuing a major disaster declaration for the gard state. And now jersey city is an epicenter for the virus with cases skyrocketing there. Fatalities in the pandemics epicenter will continue to rise. speaking spish norma speaking spanish line ringing recording speaking spanish jesus speaking spash children clamoring sp woman speakinish indistinct chatter baby cryi higher, higher. Norma one, two, three, go birds chirping there is no impediment to people who are undocumented coming forth for the medicalee care that they we have assurances that thats the case, i hope that it is. Sp reporteking spanish norma birds chirping andrea thuds walter birds chirping mmhmm. Mm. Jesus new data suggests a growingtb ak of Coronavirus Infections amoung immigrants in u. S. Custody. O r the government has refused to consider a large overlapping voices ainees. Norma i like that attitude. Hi. And you have a phone number . Norma its room number. speaks indistinctly okay. speaking spanish instinct im gonna be here. I want to be here. I want to be here. Thank you. Bye. laughter the last timthat i had mywn bed was like three months ago. Andrea phone ringing norma and Andrea Andrea and norma birds chirping norma and jesus norma hey, a fire fire, a fire. Andrea kids speaking indistinctly okay, david, you ready . Norma walter speaking spanish laughs hey papi papi papi speaks indistinctly girl screaming this my dad. squeals e have stuff for you. speaking spanish go to pbs. Org frontline for more of our reporting on the toll of the pandemic on the latino community. And listen to our podcast with the director of love, life, the virus, oscar guerra. F this is not the reality what happens to most latinoes fami you know, its rare that it had this ending so thats why connect with fre e. On facebook and twitter, and watch anytime on the pbs video app or pbs. Org frontline. We are taking back our country were in a battle for the soul of america. Narrator as america faces an historic choice. As the coronavirus explodes. Historically bad these unemployment numbers are. Protestsgainst police brutality. 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