When you graduated from Dez-Ann Romain’s class, she didn’t leave your life. She became your friend, multiple former students tell TIME. “She supported us through all our future endeavors, whether it [was] personal or professional,” Curtis Turney-Rentas, 27, tells TIME in a Facebook message. Romain taught Turney-Rentas high school art at the Frederick Douglass Academy … Read more
When Wahidullah Rahimi leaves his tent to wander around the refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos, he wears a face mask. But between standing in line alongside other refugees at food distribution centers and sleeping in an unsanitary tent, the 32-year-old Afghan knows there is little he can do to protect himself from … Read more
I never imagined needing to have end-of-life conversations with my wife while we were in our thirties. But here was my wife, a doctor board-certified in internal medicine, giving me directives a few days ago as she suited up to head to her New York hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic. “If I’m on a ventilator, … Read more
Texas and Ohio have identified abortion as one of the non-essential medical procedures that should be delayed amid the coronavirus outbreak, fueling the debate over abortion rights in states that have already sought to restrict them. As the coronavirus spreads across the U.S., threatening to overwhelm hospitals, several states have required that nonessential surgeries and … Read more
As the U.K. grabbles with its growing coronavirus crisis, some 250 000 people have registered to volunteer with the National Health Service (NHS), the U.K.’s publicly funded healthcare system to help those with underlying health conditions. The NHS put out a call for volunteers over the age of 18 and in good health to assist … Read more
As COVID-19 continues to slam New York City hospitals, New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine this week took the dramatic step of letting its graduating class depart early to join the response effort. New York City has rapidly become a hotspot for COVID-19, with more than 15,000 of the world’s roughly 440,000 cases as … Read more
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