"Despite warnings of a future pandemic, hospitals hadn"t stocked sufficient PPEputting healthcare workers and their patients at risk.
High levels of exposure and inadequate protection meant workers lived in constant fear of transmitting CoVid to patients or bringing it home to loved ones.
Many were forced to live apart from their families with nothing but FaceTime contact for months at a time. Those providing direct care for prolonged timesaides and RNs are a higher concentration of BIPOC and were placed at the highest risk.
Community members and healthcare workers scrambled to fill the holes where systems failedsewing masks and head coverings by the dozens and leaving them at employee entrances and in break rooms.
This site seeks to continue and expand this conversation about how the pandemic changed us.
To shine a light on the harsh reality healthcare workers faced and to create a space for them to tell their untold stories and for us to bear witness to them."
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