Life and Death, But No Trash Pickup: Diary of a Young COVID-19 Nurse,

by Ryan Gabrielson Illustrations by Molly Crabapple for ProPublica

“When a 27-year-old critical care nurse volunteered for Santa Clara Valley Medical Center’s COVID-19 unit last month, she knew that caring for patients with failing lungs and an untreatable disease would be frightening and heartbreaking. What she didn’t expect was to be shunned by fearful workers in other departments, surrounded by uncollected trash and forced to use up health benefits on a technicality”