Commentary: My friend the nurse who gives her all needed help. The health care system let her down

My friend is a health care worker.

My friend is the health care worker you would want at your bedside in a medical crisis.

A registered nurse at a community health center, she has spent the last two years connecting underserved patients with therapeutics for COVID, driving unhoused COVID-positive patients to the infusion center for monoclonal antibody treatments to prevent worsening infection.

She made pharmacy runs to pick up and hand-deliver Paxlovid, a COVID antiviral medication that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from