Opinion: A proper tribute to health care workers on the Covid-19 front lines: forgive their student loan debt
Covid-19 has been likened to a stealth enemy attacking the fabric and well-being of our society. This epidemic has given rise to the largest federal stimulus package in history. As terms suggestive of wartime are being used to describe this clinical siege, clinicians working in the country’s hospitals and medical facilities represent the front line of defense.
Tragically, many of them are being sent to work ill-equipped and poorly protected. Reports of physicians, nurses, and other health care workers scrounging for protective equipment or using garbage bags as protective gowns, common office supplies as masks, or re-using masks — fearful of confusing the tainted side with the protective side — should concern everyone reliant on their valor.
