Alumni fight COVID-19 battle on many fronts

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - 16:20 in Psychology & Sociology

The stories of how the COVID-19 pandemic has upended work and life are as diverse as the new challenges and pressures the disease has created. The Gazette asked alumni who are engaged in the battle against the disease to share their experiences and how their work has radically changed. NGOZI EZIKE ’94 Chicago Director of the Illinois State Department of Public Health Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times via AP For leaders of public health departments across the country, the pandemic has meant a stark new reality of always feeling behind, difficult decisions, endless workdays. Ezike remembers waiting for an individual’s test to come back from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The call came late in the evening: a positive result, the second confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S. “The CDC was on site the next day,” she recalled. “We were all on site at the hospital, working out the plan to identify all...

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