Collected Item: “Melrose Wakefield Hospital COVID precautions”
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Melrose Wakefield Hospital COVID precautions
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These are photographs I took at a hospital on my way to get COVID tested. The hospital is Melrose Wakefield Hospital located in Melrose, MA. The first and second photos were taken at the entrance to the Walk-In Clinic. The third photo and fourth photos were captured in an exam room inside the clinic.
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One of my coworkers tested positive for COVID-19, so all the employees got tested to ensure we were all being safe at work. I think the photos I captured at Melrose Wakefield Hospital tells a story about all the precautions to stay safe and healthy in an unprecedented time. These photos respond to the needs and considerations of an ethical archive because it shows what precautions are being taken both inside and outside a hospital. In The Ethical Archivist, the author wrote about the ethics of acquisition, which documents have permanent or evidentiary value. I think these pictures may be seemingly unimportant to most people, but to historians this is data that shows what types of mandates and precautions were put in place during a worldwide pandemic.
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#Suffolk, #HST241, #CovidMiniCollection, #hospital, #healthcare, #covidtestingsite, #wearamask
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Victoria Milotte
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2020-12-01