Erica Chang, Motivated by the Pandemic to Help, Dies at 24 Armed with degrees in biomedicine and engineering, she wanted to administer health care. Her Covid-19 death came just five days before her father’s. Erica Chang, a rising star in the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers, had contemplated a career in medicine but decided instead to become an engineer and focus on the delivery of care.Credit...via Chang family April 27, 2021, 2:45 p.m. ET This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others . Erica Chang, who was born in Flu...