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They died saving others from Covid. Will anyone count them? 15 minutes to read 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 ....