CDC Medical Officer Vikram Krishnasamy delivers a toy and a medical checkup to a child in quarantine at Lackland Air Force Base in February.
CDC Medical Officer Vikram Krishnasamy delivers a toy and a medical checkup to a child in quarantine at Lackland Air Force Base in February.
Sometimes, fighting a pandemic means driving long stretches from hospital to hospital across the desert. Other times, it can mean handing out a toy to soothe a nervous child.
Dr. Vikram Krishnasamy has done both in the months since COVID-19 hit the United States. Krishnasamy, a CDC medical officer, has been in the field twice—first to help repatriate Americans returning from Hubei Province, China, where the pandemic began; and again to support the tribal