Oral history interview with Chez Valenta, 2020
- Name
- Valenta, Chez (Interviewee)
- Goyal, Rishi (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Chez Valenta, 2020
- Abstract
- This interview with Chez Valenta details the experiences and horrors experienced by healthcare workers in New York during the COVID-19 pandemic. Valenta talks about the mental health issues that paramedics and other medical staff face on the job, the unusual medical difficulties and high call volumes that arose with COVID-19, and the difficulties associated with finding good information, and keepin g in contact with family abroad.
- Collection Name
- New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection
- Subjects
- Emergency medical technicians; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; Hospitals--Emergency services--United States; COVID-19 (Disease)--Health aspects; Emergency medical services; Mental health; Valenta, Chez
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 33 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Originally from New Zealand, Chez Valenta is a rescue paramedic who lives in Brooklyn. At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, Valenta had worked in paramedicine for twenty years
- Note
- Interviewed by Rishi Goyal on October 25, 2020
- Note (Provenance)
- Chez Valenta, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 18909772
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/7b50-kh83