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Life for a medical worker in a pandemic

Alaa Daghlas, a physician assistant at a Bronx hospital, grapples with her decision to return to work after recovering from covid-19. And Jon Gerberg reports from an ICU in Brooklyn scrambling to keep up with the influx of coronavirus patients. Read more: Alaa Daghlas prepares for her first day back on the front lines of a Bronx hospital after <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/all-told/you-never-signed-up-for-this/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports">contracting </a>covid-19.  Inside a Brooklyn ICU, health-care workers <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-the-icu-health-care-workers-with-little-to-offer-covid-19-patients-soldier-on/2020/04/04/16face9e-74f3-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports">risk their lives</a> to care for coronavirus patients in critical condition.  Follow the Post’s live coronavirus coverage <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/coronavirus/?itid=hp__%3A&amp;utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports">here</a>.  Subscribe to The Washington Post: <a href="https://postreports.com/offer">https://postreports.com/offer</a>

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