Volunteers Come Together to Give Exhausted Siberian Doctors a Lift
Volunteers Come Together to Give Exhausted Siberian Doctors a Lift Coming down with COVID-19 in Siberia, Russia can be a daunting experience. Nearing 2.5 million confirmed cases and just shy of 45,000 deaths, the country is currently being decimated by a deadly outbreak as facilities are near capacity. Instead of coming to the local hospitals, infectious patients have been advised to stay at home until a doctor can arrange for a house call. Doctors are being flooded with requests for house calls when there aren’t enough staff or vehicles to go around. To help providers, volunteers started c...