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Healthcare Workers and COVID-19
The Role of Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
PICTURES & PHOTOGRAPHS
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is happening in front of the eyes of billions, with journalists and media corporations at the forefront, reporting the events that transpire every day to the general population. Pictures and photographs of healthcare workers battling on the front lines, globally, bring a form of reality to show that COVID-19 is a health crisis that is affecting not just general society, but those that are risking their lives to fight the disease.
VIDEO & AUDIO RECORDINGS
Advancement of media technology has progressed in showcasing the existence of the COVID-19 pandemic that is affecting the global population. Videos and audio recordings are one form that has exposed the state and conditions healthcare workers are in, have experienced over the duration of the health crisis, presenting the plight of the challenge they are tasked with, with strained resources that has exacerbated in the response in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
The COVID-19 pandemic is the first global health crisis, in history, where the use of social media and technology are being used on an extensive scale to keep the global population updated. Healthcare workers and professionals have been, on the front lines, expressing their voice, on social media platforms, over the various experiences and challenges that have implicated their abilities to help those that have been affected by the infectious disease.
ABOUT THIS DIGITAL ARCHIVE
The burden of tackling a global health crisis has affected one group, the most than any other, the world's healthcare workers, coping with infection, death, and disease on a daily basis, often risking their own health at the same time in order to assist those challenged by the illness. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that the concept of health is nonexistent without the presence of healthcare workers. With the health resources at the hands of healthcare workers being limited to supply essential care, the levels of inaccessibility, they experience, at large, has presented that broader protection and support are needed.
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This digital archive focuses on the role of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Information on their role, experiences, and challenges that they faced, and continue to do so, due to the interdisciplinary complications of the COVID-19 health crisis, are presented in the form of various medium such as through pictures and photographs, videos and audio recordings, and social media posts and engagements. This digital archive aims to present, and relay the message, the underrated and underappreciated role of healthcare workers and how crucial it is for their existence and service to uphold the health of humanity.
