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Evan Frost

Nurse Jeanette Rupert is hard to keep up with. When she's not treating COVID-19 patients in the ICU, she's dispensing medical care at George Floyd Square, just blocks from where she was born and raised. In the turbulence of 2020, Rupert says she's deepened her appreciation and commitment to her friends, family and community.

Nurse Jeanette Rupert is hard to keep up with. When she's not treating COVID-19 patients in the ICU, she's dispending medical care at George Floyd Square, just blocks from where she was born and raised. In the turbulence of 2020, Rupert says she's deepened her appreciation and commitment to her friends, family and community.

In the ICU and at George Floyd Square, one nurse fights two pandemics

A woman in a colorful head wrap uses a sthethoscope on a man.

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A woman carries a large red bag away from a gas station.

A finger with a pulse oximeter is held out.

A woman in a mask and purple gloves fist bumps a man.

A black mask pin says Black Lives Matter, on a nurse's coat.

A person in PPE stands at a bed of a patient.

A woman outside of a room holds up two fingers to another nurse inside.

A woman wearing a face shield wipes it clean with sanitizing liquid.

A woman stands at a computer with a patient in a hospital bed behind her.

Three people hang a long banner on a wall.

A woman in full PPE adjusts a medication line.

A woman walks down a hallway with an "Intensive Care Unit" sign above her.

In the ICU and at George Floyd Square, one nurse fights two pandemics

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