COVID-19
Stories told during a time of pandemic. We will add to this collection in the coming months.
Editor’s Choice
Features
Bay Area public health officers had prepared all their lives for the possibility of a pandemic. That didn’t make their decisions any easier.
Helping Little Ones Show Their Love from Afar
A Stanford doctor wrote some rhymes to explain social distancing to his toddler. Next thing he knew, he had self-published a book.
by Summer Moore Batte
Faith and Hope in the Hospital Corridors
Chaplaincy takes on a new look.
by Andrew Tan
‘We Might Come Out Weak, but We Are Going to Come Out’
In overwhelmed eastern Peru, an Indigenous alum rallies a scrappy medical brigade to confront COVID-19.
by Melinda Sacks
Everybody Dance Now
Stanford’s English department gets its Zoom groove on.
by Kathy Zonana
‘It’s Here, and It’s Spreading’
Washington state health officer Kathy Lofy, ’93, remembers the beginning of the pandemic.
by Deni Ellis Béchard
Stepping Up for the Navajo Nation
Grassroots effort supplies PPE to health-care workers in Navajo communities.
by Melinda Sacks