A COVID vaccine T-shirt designed by a Springfield freshman takes off
For months, Aliyah Hashmi would watch her mother, Dr. Sayeeda Azra Jabeen, a hospitalist/internist at HSHS St. John's Hospital in Springfield, come home tired and often in tears from 12- to 14-hour shifts taking care of COVID-19 patients. In October, Hashmi's grandfather and Jabeen's father, Zaheer Hussain, died in Bangalore, India. Six months before, he had been treated for COVID-19 and been released from the hospital, though the family believes the virus may have played a part in him having an apparent heart attack. With a double punch to the gut, Hashmi, a freshman at Springfield High Scho...