CDC ARX Lansing Consumer Hero AV Script
AUDIO: Music without lyrics plays in the background throughout the entire video. 
VISUALS: A windchime sways with sunlight behind it. A woman, Mo, sits in a chair. The camera angle changes to show another woman, Mary, sitting next to her. 
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: It all just came back to me, all of, everything that my mother had gone through. And once I started learning about how these things probably could have been prevented, then, it changed my arc as an infection preventionist. That I could help people relate to what they needed to do by talking about my mom and sharing my mom’s story.
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: Every year, tens of thousands of American families lose a loved one to a drug-resistant infection. Sisters Mary and Mo share their mom’s story.
VISUALS: Mary and Mo sit in chairs in front of a purple backdrop with a table and lamp between them. Someone off camera claps a film slate. 
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: Maureen “Mo” Lansing. Infection Preventionist & Nurse. 
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: I’m Mo Lansing, I’m an infection preventionist and a nurse. And this is my sister.
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: Mary Miller. Infection Preventionist & Nurse. 
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: I’m Mary Miller. I’m also an infection preventionist and a nurse. 
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: And we lost our mom to a drug-resistant germ on Mother’s Day. 
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: And we went on afterwards to become infection preventionists.
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: Drug-resistant germs have developed the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. These germs cause infections that are difficult, or impossible, to treat. 
VISUALS: Footage shows Mary getting ready for work, clipping her badge on her uniform.
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: Infection preventionists, their whole goal is to keep the patient safe. And we can be involved in any department of a hospital. 
VISUALS: Photos of Mary and Mo’s mother and family appear. Mary speaks again on camera. 
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: My mother grew up in Boston, so she had that Boston accent. And she was an only child, my father was an only child, so they had nine kids. So, I’m the oldest daughter and the oldest, she’s the youngest daughter. 
VISUALS: Mary and Mo flip through a family album, pointing at photos of their mother and siblings.
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: My father decided to open a flower store. So then my mother had nine kids plus had to work at the flower store every day.
VISUALS: Photos of Mary and Mo’s family flash across the screen. 
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: What I remember most about my mom was that she loved her family, she loved all of us individually and as a group. 
VISUALS: Mary and Mo speak again on camera.  
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: My mother was a dialysis patient. What happened was she developed a drug-resistant infection, bloodstream infection. 
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: Mary and Mo’s mother developed a preventable drug-resistant infection.
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: Her quality of life completely changed. She wasn’t independent anymore and that, I think, was very frustrating for her as well.  
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: Drug-resistant infections can lead to serious complications and illness, hospitalization, or death.
VISUALS: Mo sips tea and looks out the window. More photos of Mary and Mo’s mother and family flash on the screen.  
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: It was very hard for me to see her in that condition because she was such a lively person otherwise. She became septic. 
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection and it is a life-threatening medical emergency. 
VISUALS: Mary and Mo sit at a table, arranging flowers in a vase. Then they speak again on camera in front of the purple backdrop. 
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: She just got sicker and sicker. She went back to the hospital for the last time and that’s where she died. 
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: Of all weird things to happen, my mother dies on Mother’s Day. She had nine kids and it was just really, really, you know kind of heart- even more heartbreaking than it would have been. But that’s, that’s how it ended. AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: And it was all related to this initial infection with a drug-resistant germ. 
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: More people are getting drug-resistant infections. They can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any stage of life. 
VISUALS: Mo clips her work badge, which reads, “MAUREEN LANSING, PATIENT SAFETY & QUALITY,” to her scrubs. Mary clips her work badge, which reads, “MARY MILLER, INFECTION CONTROL,” to her scrubs. Mary and Mo speak again on camera. Footage then shows Mo using hand sanitizer from a standing dispenser, then putting on disposable medical gloves and other personal protective equipment.
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: I share my mother’s story and I have been sharing it since I became an infection preventionist. I think it helps team members, physicians, anyone that I’m talking to, understand that the person that’s in the bed belongs to someone and that every touch matters. And I think it also helps them understand that it could be their loved one. And what would they want for them? 
VISUALS: Mary and Mo speak again on camera. Photos flash across the screen showing Mo at work in personal protective equipment, and Mary and Mo wearing matching shirts that read, “germ nerd.” Footage shows Mary working at her computer, then wiping down surfaces with sanitizing wipes. 
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: Both Mary and I have been on all sides of the bed – between being nurses, being infection preventionists, being family members, and then also being patients ourselves in the past – that we have a unique approach to what we can give to patients, team members, nurses, physicians, anyone in the healthcare system. To be a voice for them and to help them speak up.
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: There are simple actions we can all take to help protect ourselves and our loved ones from drug-resistant infections.  
VISUALS: Mo washes her hands with soap and water, then wipes down the counter with sanitizing wipes. Mary speaks again on camera.
AUDIO OF MARY SPEAKING: Prevent infections whenever you can. Practice hand hygiene whenever you can. You have a wound on your arm – keep it covered. Use common sense for food preparation. And also use antibiotics wisely. 
VISUALS: Footage shows patterns of sunlight reflecting off the wall. Footage then shows Mary and Mo walking through the park with their three dogs on leashes. Vignettes of Mary and Mo appear on screen. 
AUDIO OF MO SPEAKING: Our mom taps us on the shoulder every once in a while to say, you know, thank you because we’re hopefully, you know, changing more lives than just our own. It’s like that story of the starfish, where somebody comes upon a beach and a little child is throwing starfish back into the water. And the adult says, “Well, you can’t save all of them.” And the child reaches down, picks up a starfish and throws it into the water and says, “I made a difference for that one.” And I think that that’s what we do. We make a difference, whether it’s for the patients, the community, or for the healthcare teams that we work with. 
TEXT GRAPHIC APPEARS: When it comes to preventing infections and the spread of drug resistance, we all have a role to play.  Learn what you can do to help protect yourself and those you care for at cdc.gov/antimicrobial-resistance. CDC logo below and centered.