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Judy Woodruff:
While this week did bring hopeful signs for the end of the pandemic and an easing of some restrictions, hundreds of thousands of families, as we know, are still feeling the loss of a loved one over the past 15 months.
We pause again to remember some of their stories.
To some in Carrollton, Texas, he was Coach Mathews, while, to others, he was Mr. Mathews, or even school board President Mathews; 73-year-old John Mathews served his local school district for more than half-a-century, whether it was as a teacher, administrator, coach, or stadium announcer.
Nurse who died from COVID is honored for her commitment and caring
Bryant & Stratton College said it would continue to honor Robertson with a scholarship to be awarded to LPNs working to becoming RNs.
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HOPEWELL, Va. Bryant & Stratton College helped to honor Syvie Robertson, a Hopewell nursing student who died January 1 of complications from COVID-19.
Robertson was a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) studying to become a Registered Nurse (RN). The 51-year-old mother would have graduated this spring.
Robertson worked with COVID-19 patients at a long-term care facility and contracted the virus over Christmas.
They died saving others from Covid. Will anyone count them?
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By: Andrew Jacobs
Medical workers are called heroes. But there hasn t been a national reckoning over the many thousands lost to Covid. Here are a few of the people who gave their lives while on the front lines of the pandemic.
Dr. Claire Rezba is exhausted from counting the dead.
An anaesthesiologist in Virginia, Rezba, 41, has spent the past year running a Twitter feed that memorialises American health care workers who have died of Covid-19. So far, she has published more than 2,500 tributes to the doctors, emergency room nurses, respiratory therapists and mental health counsellors cut down in their prime. Although she knows there are at least a thousand other deaths that remain unrecognised, Rezba plans to discontinue the project at the end of March.
They Died Saving Others From Covid. Will Anyone Count Them?
Medical workers are called heroes. But there hasn’t been a national reckoning over the many thousands lost to Covid. Here are a few of the people who gave their lives while on the front lines of the pandemic.
Celia Yap-Banago a nurse in Kansas City, Mo., died on April 21. “Don’t worry,” she told her son earlier that day. “I’ll be fine.”Credit.Photo via Jhulan Banago
Dr. Claire Rezba is exhausted from counting the dead.
An anesthesiologist in Virginia, Dr. Rezba, 41, has spent the past year running a Twitter feed that memorializes American health care workers who have died of Covid-19. So far, she has published more than 2,500 tributes to the doctors, emergency room nurses, respiratory therapists and mental health counselors cut down in their prime. Although she knows there are at least a thousand other deaths that remain unrecognized, Dr. Rezba plans to discontinue the project at the end of March.