When COVID-19 first hit the United States, Kennesaw nurse Laura Price was working at a doctor’s office north of Atlanta, caring for increasing numbers of patients who ended up in the hospital.
“And I remember saying to the girls that I worked with, I don’t know what this is, but this is the worst sickness that I’ve ever seen,” she said. “And I had already experienced another pandemic because I was in Pediatrics when we had H1N1.”
Soon after she treated someone with the same telltale respiratory symptoms, Price got sick.
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