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COVID drives medical students into political activism 12 hours ago Doctors, nurses and other health care workers participate in an event in solidarity with George Floyd and other coloured Americans killed by police officers, at the Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, California. File/Agence France-Presse Victoria Knight, Tribune News Service Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college...

“People were needlessly dying while our leaders were failing.”

Events of 2020 moved medical students to political activism Inam Sakinah and her classmates will forever be known as the students who started medical school during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. All of them had prepared for this step for years, taking hours of hard science classes in college, studying for the medical school admissions test and often volunteering, working or even getting master's or other advanced degrees before starting on the long path to earning a medical degree. But their decisions to become doctors seemed to carry even more weight when set against the backdrop of the events ...