Time to read: about 2 minutes Elizabeth McCarthy, a nurse at Stanford Hospital, gets what it's like to want to smack the bejesus out of the coronavirus. The Menlo Park resident has been taking care of patients with COVID-19 throughout the pandemic, and knows better than most the anger and frustration that many people feel toward the invisible virus that has taken so many lives and derailed so many plans. Now, she's offering a way for people to get that cathartic thrill as an artisan making handmade, biologically accurate piñatas shaped like the coronavirus. Elizabeth McCarthy cuts paper she will use to decorate her coronavirus piñatas in her Menlo Park home on April 26, 2021. Photo by Magali Gauthier.