Opinion: Faces of health care workers on the frontlines of the Covid-19 fight
Health care workers are responding to the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic with professionalism and courage. Doctors and nurses have been, by far, the faces seen on nightly news videos or the voices quoted in news articles. Yet many other workers are involved in patient care and make it possible for hospital ecosystems to function properly — janitors, transport specialists, baristas, administrative clerks, dietitians, and more. They, however, tend to be invisible to the world outside of hospitals doors.
As the Covid-19 pandemic began to unfold, I noticed that people in the hospital where I work were generally worried. I noticed it in physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals doing direct patient care, but I also saw it in the barista who made my coffee most days. In the cleaning staff who took such great care sanitizing patient rooms, call rooms, and common areas. In the transport specialists who moved patients from one part of the hospital to the other.
