Latest Stories from the COVID-19 Crisis

Video game controller

“My sister…she’s a nurse.”

By Aaron Waddingham and Sue Robins

Woman holding mobile phone

“Now is the time to pick up the phone and call a neighbor.”

physician wearing PPE

“Although the pandemic has given us our own surge of energy and enthusiasm, I worry.”

By Lakshman Swamy

Door of House in Cameroon

“I realized I wasn’t powerless. If prevention is better than cure, I was in the frontline, too.”

By Njimafo Tiam Armand

Sorry we're closed sign

“I can’t imagine a world in which independent primary care doesn’t exist.”

Parked Cars

“Spending a few minutes outdoors in our parking lot for fresh air.”

Mike and Augie

“I’m incredibly lucky. For now.”

By Michael Briddon

Yes/No Check-box

"My plea is simple! Tell the truth about your symptoms and contacts to health workers."

By Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey

Letter being written by child

"Scared that I might not be able to deliver but 100 percent committed to the leader, team, and mission."

Green Masks

“Health workers know that they are valued and, to whatever extent possible, they will be protected.”

By Pierre Barker, MD

An old alarm clock

“A wake-up call for research and development collaboration among Africans.”

By Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey

Dirty Street with graffiti on walls

"I would ask each of us to consider the forces that make some of us far more vulnerable."

By Bram Wispelwey

Black and white stethoscope

“Let us all find one beautiful thing today that makes us happy.”

By Albana Gjeka-Sgouridis

Hands holding a small candle

"I pray that the virus will spare her."

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