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.
Essential workers reflect on struggles and triumphs of 2020 December 23 2020
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Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share content to highlight the human toll of the pandemic. Our hope is this collaboration captures this historic nature of the COVID-19 crisis.
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.
They ve operated for months at full-speed, clocking 16-hour shifts to provide care to those with the least access. Some even have been known to clock out, only to turn around and volunteer more time supporting the organization in other ways. Sue Sierralupe, clinic director of Occupy Medical said the conditions have exposed a depth of passion and human spirit.
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