"I felt the tug on my sleeve and looked down to find him standing motionless. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t make out his words. His quiet body in the noisy room caught me off guard. I bent down to find his voice."
Sammy Teuch, an Indiana fourth-grader, took his own life earlier this month after enduring what his family has called relentless bullying at the hands of several students.
"This is called cross-contamination. There's no point in wearing gloves if you're not gonna wash your hands every time you touch something. There's no point, friends."
A professor of public health and member of multiple coronavirus task forces, Dr. Robert Norton, answers critical questions about the pandemic and its projected timeline.
“Today, my husband had to sit in the hallway and listen through speakerphone to hear that our baby went to be with Jesus and their big sister. We didn’t get to grieve together, we couldn’t even hug and tell each other it would be okay or that we would survive this."
This is the face of a mother whose baby cannot receive care because of low risk of COVID19 contact. The face of a mother who is not allowed to be with her baby in the ER because she herself is extremely ill, hacking, weak, and with fever and could potentially infect others.
