The New York Times

• Title

  Who Gets a Ventilator?

• Category

  Journalism, Animation, Music

• Date

  April 14, 2020

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With "Who gets a Ventilator" our hope was to create awareness and spur action regarding the patchwork triage system in place guiding the distribution of ventilators in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The clock was ticking: COVID cases were on the rise and federal authorities were slow to give guidance regarding ventilator assignment and triage. The stakes, however, were clear: a patchwork system would leave individual healthcare systems and doctors to decide - putting an even greater burden on beleagured healthcare workers and patients.

After animation was locked, we composed the music in a live recording over the piece to give it a more organic and thoughtful feel, we then fleshed the music out to be artfully appealing without being a distraction from the information.

• Title

  Why Do Some Health Care Workers Live in Poverty?

• Category

  Journalism, Documentary

• Date

  May 19, 2020

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It’s 3 a.m. and Kim Rockwood, a health care worker, is driving to her patients’ homes — even during the coronavirus pandemic — to help them take medication or go to the bathroom. She’s effectively on call 24/7. Yet she can barely make ends meet. As she explains in the above video, she’s always on the clock, and even though she loves her job, she can’t afford her own health insurance. Why is someone so vital to our health care system scraping by on poverty wages?

Ms. Rockwood, a certified nursing assistant in Worcester County, Mass., is not alone. The average home care worker in America makes just $16,200 a year. Many of them would make more on unemployment. Someday, most of us will need supportive care. Will there be any workers left when that time comes?