Clintons Send Gift To Medical Staff Working NYC Pandemic

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While President Donald Trump has been struggling through basic response measures as the Coronavirus outbreak has raged, the Clintons have joined those helping pick up the slack with gestures of goodwill. This week, amidst New York City’s uniquely dismal struggles through the outbreak, medical staffers at St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Dobbs Ferry got a surprise delivery of pizza from the Clinton family meant to help alleviate at least a moment of burden. News of the delivery emerged via a Twitter post from an emergency room doctor at the hospital, and the Clintons’ daughter Chelsea eventually seemed to confirm the donation.

Angela Cirilli, who works as an emergency medicine ultrasound director at the gifted hospital, posted in response to a tweet from Hillary Clinton:

‘Amazing !!! I am an ER doctor at Dobbs Ferry NY and just received pizza from the Clintons. Thank you !!!! We NEED LEADERS LIKE YOU in this tough time. So much gratitude I didn’t know how else to reach you to say thank you – Angela cirilli, MD’

In the original post, Hillary had thanked those on the front lines working to protect Americans amidst the Coronavirus outbreak. She named “medical professionals, grocery store employees, delivery drivers, pharmacy workers, mail carriers, firefighters, police, [and] nursing home employees” among those who should be especially appreciated as the U.S. goes through these tough times.

Chelsea Clinton eventually tweeted:

‘My first thought was gratitude for hospital staff everywhere. My second was, of course she did. My third, I admit, was the pizzagate folks are going to go into overdrive to fit this into their conspiracy theory. And, I love my mom @HillaryClinton.’

The front lines have been hit especially hard. Large numbers of doctors have even either come out of retirement entirely or delayed their departure from the workforce in order to help assist with the surge in patients. In New York City alone, as of late Wednesday, there’d been some 4,000 hospitalizations over the virus, and that number, which obviously already seemed like more than enough to overwhelm any city’s medical system, was quickly growing. The city has tallied more than 20,000 confirmed cases and what’s fast approaching 300 deaths.

One NYC-area doctor taped a widely circulated video testimonial documenting her facility’s struggle to get supplies as basic as ventilators amidst the crisis. Coronavirus is a respiratory disease, and as such, it has led to depletions in related supplies. The Trump administration has dragged its feet when dealing with the supply shortages. Trump has refused to invoke the Defense Production Act to get companies moving to produce the required material, even as alarms from officials across the country have only continued to accumulate.

This week, the Senate passed a huge Coronavirus relief bill that constitutes the largest economic bailout effort in U.S. history. The legislation includes measures ranging from direct payments for hard-hit individuals to large sums for struggling corporations. The passage came after days on end of negotiations, but the package has yet to pass the House, where a vote is scheduled for Friday.



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