COVID heroes: Herald News honors essential workers who stepped up in 2020
Some were expected — obviously an infectious disease will bring out heroes in the medical field. But who expected grocery store clerks to be our heroes? Or school nurses? Or grandmothers with sewing machines? Yet they all helped us through some dark times in 2020. And here is our way of celebrating them. Doctors When the coronavirus first hit this region back in March, doctors at Saint Anne's Hospital and Charlton Memorial Hospital were — as expected — on the front lines. In March, as cases began ramping up, Southcoast Health began putting restrictions in place, stockpiling much-need...