Essential workers clock long hours in COVID-19 pandemic, confront virus skeptics Updated Dec 24, 2020; Posted Dec 24, 2020 Occupy Medical team leader MacKenzie Ni Flainn walks down the hall way of the clinic in Springfield. Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard Facebook Share By Jordyn Brown and Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick, The Register-Guard Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share content to highlight the human toll of the 2020 pandemic. Our hope is this collaboration captures this historic nature of the COVID-19 crisis. This article was contributed by in Eugene. If there ever were an image of what it means to be a “front-line worker” this year, those at Occupy Medical — a free clinic in Lane County serving the uninsured and unhoused — would be it.