In April, a friend relayed her experience of getting a test for COVID-19 at a drive-through site at a university in Rhode Island, describing “dozens of camouflaged National Guard soldiers directing grim-faced drivers.” After more than 12 days of persistent fever and two conversations with her doctor, she reported as instructed, alone in her car, and held her ID up …
Enlisted Laborers of Public Health: overlaps in the work of soldiers in historical perspective
This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic