Frontline workers posing making heart shape with their hands

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Health

Photos of Front Line Health Workers That Will Fill You With Trojan Pride

When the virus started hitting Angelenos, these Keck Medicine of USC professionals rose to the challenge.

July 08, 2020 Alicia Di Rado

When they graduated from school, they took a vow to protect and promote the health of our mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, friends and neighbors — and complete strangers.

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They are nurses. Patient care assistants. Respiratory therapists. Technicians. Radiologists who scrutinize your X-ray as if it were their own. Staff members who check hospital visitors for fever to reduce the spread of disease.

They may not have imagined how COVID-19 would affect our society, but they remain committed to fighting it. These snapshots from the pandemic record brief moments in the lives of these Trojan heroes — the heart of Keck Medicine of USC.