NPR March 19, 2025
As we mark five years on from the start of the coronavirus pandemic this month, life has changed for many people, in ways both mundane and profound.
Dr. Kurt Papenfus is someone NPR interviewed in 2020. The medical director and chief of staff of a small hospital in rural Colorado, Papenfus first took care of COVID patients, then he became one. He told us the story of driving himself to Denver — with an escort of sheriff’s deputies to make sure he made it — so he could get the intensive care he knew he needed for COVID pneumonia.
“The ‘rona beast is a very nasty beast,” he said back then. “It...
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