Veteran nurse and Hard Ball Press Publisher, Timothy Sheard, worked with Nurse T (alias used to protect her identity), to write an account of true stories about life and death in a New York City’s Intensive Care Unit during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic in the year 2020.

To promote this powerful book, Empathy Media Lab and the Labor Radio Podcast Network interviewed Tim about this project and produced audio readings of essays to support emergency medical service workers who risked their lives in order to care for the frightened patients suffering from Covid-19 and their loved ones.

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Audio Essays of the Pandemic Nurses Diary

Essay read by Kim Hoyer, Nurse Coordinator at Riverside University Health System, Los Angeles California. Produced by Evan Matthew Papp, Executive Producer of Empathy Media Lab.