She’s young, and her breathing is fine, and she should have gone home by now, but that’s not how this virus works. I started thinking back over some of my patients while I was getting the vaccine — my list of 27. We were up to having, like, 35 covid patients between the two units at that point. I needed something good to happen — something to pull me out. As soon as I heard we were getting a shipment of the vaccine, I put my whole heart into that.

Source: Washington Post December 19, 2020 23:03 UTC