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Covid 19 coronavirus: 'Nobody sees us' - America's overwhelmed lab workers battle behind the scenes

By Katherine J Wu
New York Times·
11 mins to read
Covid 19 coronavirus: 'Nobody sees us' - America's overwhelmed lab workers battle behind the scenes
Covid 19 coronavirus: 'Nobody sees us' - America's overwhelmed lab workers battle behind the scenes

In March, April Abbott dragged a bed into her office at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Indiana. In the nine months since, she has slept in it six times while working overnight in her clinical microbiology lab, where scientists run coronavirus tests.

The all-night stints in the lab pull Abbott, director

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