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Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached California, frontline healthcare workers have been celebrated and elevated in countless ways.
Companies and community members at all levels have donated personal protective equipment, raised funds and sewed face masks amid shortages.
In March, Airbnb stepped up to offer free and reduced cost housing for healthcare laborers. The state then joined in — after Gov. Gavin Newsom heard stories of workers who slept in their cars and refused to risk infecting their loved ones by returning home — and offered reimbursement to caretakers, doctors and nurses self-quarantining in hotels across the state. That followed eateries shuttered amid the shelter-in-place pivoting to serving free meals to workers.
Medical staff at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose were greeted with applause, cheers and signs of support from first responders. Officers from the San Jose Police Department, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office, Campbell Police Department and firefighters with the San Jose Fire Department and Santa Clara County Fire Department lined up to welcome the workers arriving at 6:30 a.m. for a shift April 15. In San Jose, muralist Denise M. Olenak paid tribute to the workers, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, now the nation’s superstar doctor.
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