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Collected Item: “Arizona Doctor Tweets Frustration After Child Exposed to COVID”

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Arizona Doctor Tweets Frustration After Child Exposed to COVID

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Social media post

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Dr. Christina Bergin shares a thread on Twitter after her child was exposed to COVID in the classroom. She provides a story about spending 18 months doing everything she could to not expose her family to COVID because of her work in a hospital, only to have her child exposed after three days of in-person learning at school. She addresses her tweets to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, who (with the legislature) have attempted to prevent schools from instituting mask mandates and have threatened to withhold federal COVID relief funding that the state is supposed to disburse to Arizona school districts.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Arizona, Ducey, Masks, Mandates, Doctors, Children, Schools

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/CRBerginMD/status/1423899543721058304

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Dr. Christina Bergin

Give this story a date.

2021-08-06
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