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âItâll Get Betterâ: Chaplains Play Essential Role for Transit Workers
Metropolitan Transportation Authority chaplains have long provided counseling to workers, a role that is even more important during the pandemic.
Barbara Morton, left, chaplain for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Frank Lamorte, an agency painter, who was counseled by Ms. Morton after he contracted the coronavirus. Credit.James Estrin/The New York Times
By Diana Kruzman
May 11, 2021
A few days after Frank Lamorte tested positive for the coronavirus, he got an unexpected phone call.
Mr. Lamorte, a painter for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, had a persistent cough and a high fever. He worried about infecting his wife, his stepdaughter and his five-month-old grandson, who live with him in Oak Ridge, N.J., about 40 miles west of Manhattan.