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    Childhood Friends On The Health Crisis Front Lines Connect Virtually

    Sam Dow and Josh Belser are working in different cities amid the coronavirus pandemic. "I'm not at all surprised that we both ended up working in health care," Belser said in a StoryCorps interview.
    by Jud Esty-Kendall Apr 17, 2020 2 minutes
    Friends for 30 years, Sam Dow (left) in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Josh Belser in Syracuse, N.Y., are both working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.

    Friends Josh Belser and Sam Dow may be more than 400 miles apart from each other, but, as health care workers, they're united in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

    Belser, a nurse in Syracuse, N.Y., and Dow, a healthcare technician in Ann Arbor, Mich., grew up together in Florida.

    Both are self-isolating from loved ones and regularly speak with each other but the childhood

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