This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Things were still relatively calm at the Medical Center at Bowling Green in mid-March, around the time the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic and Gov. Andy Beshear of Kentucky announced the first Covid death in his state. But Dr. Rebecca Shadowen (pronounced SHAD-oh-en), a specialist in infectious diseases and health care epidemiology at the hospital, was already on the case. Dennis Chaney, a medical center colleague, recalled in an interview with NBC that Dr. Shadowen was always reminding others, “Look, folks, this isn’t politics: It’s science.”

Source: New York Times September 26, 2020 14:00 UTC