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Meet some of the front-line workers risking their lives to fight the coronavirus
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In Daegu, South Korea, Kim Hyeon-hee worked up to 14-hour shifts as a nurse in a hospital receiving as many as 80 Covid-19 patients a day
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On the first day of the Chinese New Year, Liu Taotao, a doctor in Beijing, volunteered to go to Wuhan, the epicenter of the country’s outbreak
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A recent medical school graduate, Arezoo Habibi, a pathologist, volunteered to work at a Covid-19 treatment center when the virus began to spread in her home city of Herat, Afghanistan
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Since his hospital isn’t performing planned heart surgeries, Keiji Oi, a vascular surgeon in Japan, is helping connect Covid-19 patients to machines that can oxygenate their blood when their heart and lungs can’t.
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If you’re working on the front lines of the coronavirus, please share your story with us:
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