The day we lost Miss DeShields
Just one story of 414,000
The Bridgeport paraprofessional was the world’s cosmic auntie, and when she got COVID, she fought. Oh! How she fought. She fought to breathe, then fought to stay off the ventilator. She reassured her friends she’d be coming back to school, and urged them not to worry.
Like so many others in this goddamn pandemic, she didn’t have to die.
I wrote this for Hearst.