COVID-19 CONSUMED MY DAD AS A DOCTOR. THEN IT TOOK HIS FATHER
HEALTH AND SCIENCE REPORTER
IN EARLY FEBRUARY, I GOT THE CALL I’D BEEN DREADING for months: my 82-year-old grandfather, Charlie Law, had died. I had tried to prepare myself; Grandpa had Parkinson’s disease and dementia, and he had been in physical and mental decline for about four years. Still, I hadn’t seen him in person for two of those years because of the pandemic.
Once the initial shock and sadness had washed over me, I was surprised
