Some were expected obviously an infectious disease will bring out heroes in the medical field.
But who expected grocery store clerks to be our heroes? Or school nurses? Or grandmothers with sewing machines?
Yet they all helped us through some dark times in 2020. And here is our way of celebrating them.
Doctors
When the coronavirus first hit this region back in March, doctors at Saint Anne s Hospital and Charlton Memorial Hospital were as expected on the front lines.
In March, as cases began ramping up, Southcoast Health began putting restrictions in place, stockpiling much-needed equipment and formulating a plan to deal with a surge. Dr. Dani Hackner, Southcoast Health chief clinical officer, said at the time, “We feel very responsible for the staff and community.
FALL RIVER Nancy Paull isn’t the only one champing at the bit for the first round of COVID-19 vaccines.
But unlike most of us, Paull knows just how overwhelming it can be trying to keep pace with testing requests.
“We’re at the tipping point here,” the chief executive of Stanley Street Treatment and Resources, or SSTAR, said, referring to the ongoing demand for free coronavirus testing.
Paull, who has been CEO of SSTAR for 34 years, says her non-profit which offers free coronavirus testing five days a week at its two Fall River sites has had a waiting list of people eager to be swabbed.