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
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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 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.