COVID-19 death counts became personal for one Memphis reporter
I asked the nurse leading me, Brett, a young man with a wife and a child at home, “Have you been in the COVID unit for the entirety of the pandemic?” Yes, he said. He had worked in COVID-19 units within the region’s two largest hospital systems, Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare and Baptist Memorial Health Care. He had managed to avoid contracting the virus in this time. It had been a long year of worrying he would infect his family. The doors of the COVID-19 unit on the sixth floor resembled a commercial walk-in fridge. Heavy, opaque, no windows. To the side of the doors, bins stacked i...
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