Oral history interview with Brielle Cardieri, 2020
Abstract
In the first session, Brielle Cardieri, a speaks about how her family all ended up getting COVID between February and May of 2020. She describes working in an early-residency capacity at Mount Sinai Hospital shortly after the outbreak. She also recounts her personal experience of having COVID-19 with severe symptoms. She comments some on other dimensions of the pandemic, including politics, masking , and the contrast with other crises, such as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In this second interview, Cardieri expands on life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccine rollout is a major topic of the session, as Cardieri had just received it. She comments on activities that are missed such as travel and concerts, and those that are possible, such as books and video games. She muses about her relationship with New York City during the pandemic and comments on politics and protests
Psychiatrists; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Hospitals--Emergency services--United States; Social distancing (Public health); COVID-19 vaccines; United States Politics and government 21st century; Cardieri, Brielle, 1994; Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
2020
Physical Description
98 pages
Note (Biographical)
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Brielle Cardieri, MD, lived in the Upper East Side at the time of the interview and worked as a psychiatry resident at Mount Sinai Hospital
Note
Interviewed by Francisco Lara Garcia on August 19 and December 30, 2020
Note (Provenance)
Brielle Cardieri, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023