The coronavirus has taken a steep toll on the often-invisible army of employees who keep New York hospitals running.
Rosalyn Washington’s husband, Gary, 56, died from Covid-19 the day before their wedding anniversary. (Credit: Sara Naomi Lewkowicz for The New York Times) By Nicole Hong, NY Times They did not treat patients, but Wayne Edwards, Derik Braswell and Priscilla Carrow held some of the most vital jobs at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens. As […]
By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor, The Baltimore Times With the coronavirus death toll passing 50,000 during the last week in April, black leaders in the U.S. have taken to warning their communities of the danger of opening the country back up too soon. The coronavirus has devastated the black community in Detroit and […]
By HeadCovers Coronavirus came like a global earthquake, and no one knows when the world will stop quaking. The seismic wave of this pandemic has shaken up our lives in too many ways to count. COVID-19, the most recent strain of coronavirus we’re contending with, has caused numerous illnesses, and unfortunately deaths, worldwide. We are […]
SILVER SPRING, MD – Honoring our nation’s nurse heroes is more profoundly significant than the American Nurses Association (ANA) anticipated when we extended the traditional National Nurses Week to a month of recognition in May. The COVID-19 pandemic quickly shifted the focus from the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, but now more than ever we […]
