National Health & Safety

On Dying Alone: 'Behind Every COVID-19 Case, There Is A Story'

Dr. Daniel Colon Hidalgo is a physician in the intensive care unit of a Chicago Hospital, where many of the COVID-19 patients he's tending are unconscious and terribly Ill from the minute he meets them.
Kristen Radtke for NPR

Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book "Imagine Wanting Only This" (2017), and the forthcoming books "Seek You: Essays on American Loneliness" (2021), for which she received a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and "Terrible Men", a graphic novel, all from Pantheon. Ryan Kellman is a producer and visuals editor on NPR's science desk.

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