Opinion: I fought Ebola. Here’s my advice for health workers fighting Covid-19
Health care workers who come home from treating a pandemic can feel like vectors, or pariahs. Friends and family may shun you. You may even begin thinking of yourself as…
In the summer of 2014, as I was preparing to fly to West Africa as an emergency responder to the largest Ebola outbreak in history, I sat in my room consumed with fear. I felt like a kid again, standing on the high dive for the very first time, about to plunge into the pool far below.
And while that fear dissipated somewhat over the coming weeks as I worked with Liberian and international colleagues to launch a new Ebola treatment center in Bong County,
