COVID in Alabama: For health care workers, battling coronavirus took a toll
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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The COVID-19 pandemic has tested health care workers like few others.
For the past year, Alabama’s healers have faced a crucible of dying patients, long shifts, limited equipment, makeshift ICUs, and overrun vaccination sites. All of that while crowds won’t wear a mask, some still calling the virus a hoax, and armchair experts convinced they’ve figured out more than the entire medical scientific community.
Then, when the day’s dying efforts are done, many return home to children struggling with virtual school, partners who carry them through trying times and extended families they haven’t seen in months, always worried that they could be spreading the same virus they work so hard to fight.