Documentary Photojournalist Takes us Into Local ICUs

By Mike Kiniry,

Published April 15, 2020 at 12:45 PM EDT

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Registered nurse Robert Atchison cares for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Florida. "We're saving everyone we can," Atchison said.

Kinfay Moroti / Hopeful Images

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Monitoring equipment cords from outside a COVID-19 patient's room are pushed under the door to registered nurse Aubry Sander in the intensive care unit at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Florida. This is done to reduce the number of times a patie

Kinfay Moroti / Hopeful Images

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After comforting a woman she swabbed for COVID-19 testing, registered nurse Jenna Puckett takes a momentary rest before resuming testing at a mobile site in Cape Coral, Florida. "She was afraid and overwhelmed," Puckett said of the woman she tested. "She

Kinfay Moroti / Hopeful Images

As we continue covering the local impact of the new coronavirus today we’re highlighting some amazing work by local documentary photojournalist Kinfay Moroti that captures intimate moments of some of the people who are working around the clock with Covid-19 patients in area hospitals.

Moroti’s special to the USA TODAY NETWORK is called“ON THE FRONT LINES OF CORONAVIRUS - The fatigued fighters battling to save lives.” He joined us via Skype.