The video hasn't been deleted. The video has 56,000 likes and 24,400 retweets and 9.69 million views. Wow. (emphasis mine)In tears, a nurse says she quit her job after she was asked to work in a coronavirus ICU without a face mask: “America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected” https://t.co/ywoSuLOPYP pic.twitter.com/S5BsnlO5nt— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 5, 2020
Video popularized by CBS of a crying nurse who said she was assigned to care for a patient without PPE went viral. Not disclosed was her having severe mental health issues. CBS has now had to issue a clarification after her claim was shown to be misleading https://t.co/9m2P7yWZjQ— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) April 6, 2020
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written by Roberto Wakerell-Cruz, Montreal, QC
Monday April 6, 2020
A video posted by CBS of a nurse claiming she quit her job after being asked to work maskless in a coronavirus Intensive Care United went viral recently, and now some are questioning its authenticity.
“America is not prepared, and nurses are not being protected,” the nurse says in the video, through tears. “I quit my job today. I went into work and I was assigned to a COVID patient on an ICU unit that has been converted to a designated COVID unit. None of the nurses are wearing masks.”
The video is misleading.
CBS released a statement Monday evening stating:
"Imaris Vera, the nurse in this video, clarified her experience on Monday in a tweet: 'We were each assigned 1 N95 per 1 covid patient’s room but was not allowed to wear it outside of the room, wear our own N95 mask around the Nurses station or Halls, which I came prepared with.'"
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 6, 2020Imaris Vera, the nurse in this video, clarified her experience on Monday in a tweet: "We were each assigned 1 N95 per 1 covid patient’s room but was not allowed to wear it outside of the room, wear our own N95 mask around the Nurses station or Halls, which I came prepared with."
The hospital, Northwestern Medicine, acknowledged that Imaris Vera had quit her job, but referred CBS News to Vera as to the details of why.— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 6, 2020
Vera has 13,000 followers on Instagram. After the video gained traction, it only took a handful of internet sleuths to find that Imaris had posted on her Facebook that she "suffer[s] from anxiety and bi-polar depression."
Quickly, some pointed to her Instagram post, a "boomerang" video of Imaris wearing a mask while on the job.
Her Facebook post then read that she had not been employed at the ICU for over a year, and that she wasn't sure if she was ready to join the front lines and fight the virus. “The information overload can be hard for me to sift through as far as what is credible and what is not, it triggers me,” the post reads.
You didn't even look at the rest of her social media page before you shared her video.pic.twitter.com/FQT26Gog7S— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) April 6, 2020
Well we now know that this alleged crying nurse was really an “actress”. Great job @CBS vetting your sources. I’d say you have putrid cake on your collective faces right now.— Sherry Kerdman (@sherry_kerdman) April 6, 2020
Are you effing kidding me? CBS gets caught using pandemic video & stills from Italy, trying to pass them off as being in the US, and definitely learned their lesson by now using a bipolar stock model-trying to pass her off as “the crying nurse. Please don’t vote. Or drive.— Andrew Ross (@Professorross) April 6, 2020
— Susan St. James (@SusanStJames3) April 6, 2020
she wants money from you. She has a go fund me https://t.co/lfNP8kgqcO— Roger Zelaya (@rogerzelaya) April 10, 2020
Hi @BernieSanders your girl wrote days before her histrionic video that she had anxiety and bi-polar depression, hadn't been working in the hospital for over a year and didn't know if she was ready to return. Maybe vet these people? Just a thought. https://t.co/0et5Y1d0ai pic.twitter.com/Z0gIu3Kbn4— Rosie memos (@almostjingo) April 6, 2020
Original tweet: 23K RTs, 8 million views— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) April 7, 2020
Correction in the replies: 476 RTs
Yes, the original tweet is still up. pic.twitter.com/Xv5kfudpB9
The level-up is real! Shoutout to the nurses at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia, PA. (๐ฝ️: @tjuh_pool via IG) pic.twitter.com/zHRTR248JF— ESSENCE (@Essence) April 8, 2020
If nurses have time to choreograph dances and waste ppe on an instagram video in Philadelphia... it's time to reopen America.— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) April 10, 2020
Feeling like we have all been duped. These guys can waste PPE but there is a shortage. My sister who is a nurse had her hrs cut back because the hospital is so slow, yet we are told hospitals are overrun? I want to believe this is all in our best interest, but it’s not adding up— Wendy Marie (@GlassHouses73) April 10, 2020
TikTok is a scourge of he earth. pic.twitter.com/hDvdWLqQdi— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) April 10, 2020
They're so "overwhelmed" the staff barely had time to choreograph synchronized dances for TikTok. pic.twitter.com/EizahDi1on— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) April 13, 2020
I thought hospitals were so stretched to their limits, the staff barely had time for food and bathroom breaks.— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) April 11, 2020
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That took more than a few minutes. When you're overwhelmed, you don't have time to even talk to your coworkers much less coordinate and film a video.— Mandy ☕๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ (@SpringSteps) April 11, 2020
ER's are quiet here in AZ. All the "preparation" for when the "curve" peaks is bankrupting places out here that are not seeing patients. Our poor dentists.— Kim Brittain (@Billybeeswife) April 11, 2020
Agreed! Good friend has a payroll of 90k monthly between all his offices. He’s worked his butt off to be where he’s at, now it’s all in jeopardy. Insanity needs to end! Open the country up!— J.J (@doubleJ200) April 11, 2020
I think it's pretty much the same everywhere...... Very over stretched ๐ค pic.twitter.com/ugkuwUttg2— Fckcorona (@seekthetruth27) April 11, 2020
My friend is in a hospital waiting room at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. Here is the overflowing hospital waiting room: pic.twitter.com/po2EcNSyLy— Shy ๐บ๐ธ❤️ (@ShyDeplorable) April 12, 2020
1/ #COVIDใผ19 is devastating hospitals and employees nationally. But not for the reason you think. They are empty - prepared for a surge that has not come - and burning cash. An executive reports his group’s stronger hospitals have “months” of cash; the weaker ones have “weeks.” pic.twitter.com/UhWSXcWgVP— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 8, 2020
2/ Right now they have gotten a big advance payment from Medicare, so they can keep the lights on, but they don’t know what will happen if things don’t go back to normal fast. Plus patients with MIs and other serious conditions are afraid to show up in ERs - dangerous for them.— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) April 8, 2020
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