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Collected Item: “Young Doctor Dies of Covid”

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Young Doctor Dies of Covid

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Text Story

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.

This doctor worked in the emergency department at a hospital and refused PPE repeatedly because there was such a shortage of it. The article addresses the fact that so many medical professionals have died because of inadequate PPE.

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?

#healthcareheroes,
#doctor,
#masks,
#texas,
#ASU, #HST485

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https://web.archive.org/web/20201030015302/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/07/texas-doctor-adeline-fagan-covid-coronavirus

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

Alastair Gee

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2020-10-07
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