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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 imag...

Essential workers reflect on struggles and triumphs of 2020 December 23 2020 Editor's note: Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share content to highlight the human toll of the pandemic. Our hope is this collaboration captures this historic nature of the COVID-19 crisis. 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.   They've operated for months at full-speed, clocking 16-hour shifts to provide care to those with the leas...