ICU physician: 'Behind every COVID-19 case, there is a story'

Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book "Imagine Wanting Only This" (2017), and the forthcoming books "Seek You: Essays on American Loneliness" (2021), for which she received a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and "Terrible Men", a graphic novel, all from Pantheon. Ryan Kellman is a producer and visuals editor on NPR's science desk.

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