In pursuit of a dream How a nurse lost her life in the desert
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As coronavirus tore through the Valley of Paradise, a farm-flanked backwater in the Brazilian Amazon, Lenilda dos Santos, a nurse technician, stood on the front line clutching hands most feared to touch.
“She was a warrior during the pandemic,” said Lucineide Oliveira, a friend and colleague at the town’s small, understaffed hospital. “She’d say: ‘If we have to die, we’ll die. But we must fight.’”
But one morning in early August, as the two women sat at the entrance to their Covid ward, Lenilda announced she was leaving but, she assured her friend: “I’ll be back.”
Two days later Lenilda, 49, headed off. Five weeks later and more than 6,400km north, US border patrol agents found Lenilda’s
