During the first surge of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, David F. M. Brown â chief of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital â moved out of his home for more than three months in fear of transmitting the virus to his family.
âAt that time, my daughter â who was in our Covid pod â was pregnant, and I was convinced that I was going to get infected, and I didnât want to infect her or my wife,â Brown said.
Though moving out âseemed like the right thing to do,â Brown said his isolation came with personal challenges.
âI didnât move back in until sometime in June â that was kind of a tough time for me to stay upbeat,â Brown said. âI remember that weekend moving out of the house and feeling kind of down and then there was that 15 weeks of isolation.â