| We've heard a lot about the superhuman efforts health care workers are making to care for people with Covid-19. This week on Backchannel, writer Elliott Wood puts a human face on one of those people, a nurse named Becky Cherney. She works for the University of Michigan health system, which is coping with one of the worst outbreaks in the US. Cherney is immersed in this unprecedented situation, working in a makeshift ICU 12 hours a day, volunteering with an ad hoc project that uses 3D printers to make medical face masks, and dealing with the ever-present risk of becoming infected herself. Cherney, like many, has now reached what you might call the end of the plague's beginning. "The adrenaline of the first days of the Covid response has drained away," Woods writes, "leaving sore muscles, heavy hearts, and a creeping awareness that the grind is here to stay." Mark Robinson | Features Editor, WIRED |
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