Rachel Patzer, MD, associate professor in the Department of Surgery and director of Emory’s Center for Health Services Research, recently shared a series of Tweets urging the public to take the COVID-19 pandemic seriously as her ER doctor husband is forced to self-quarantine. Patzer’s husband is currently treating coronavirus patients, and the family made the decision that he would isolate and move into their garage apartment for the foreseeable future while Patzer is on maternity leave. Since posting, she has been retweeted more than 59,000 times.
Most notably, President Barack Obama replied to Patzer’s Tweets, saying “We owe a profound debt of gratitude to all our health professionals and everybody who’ll be on the front lines of this pandemic for a long time. They’re giving everything. May we all model our own behavior on their selflessness and sacrifice as we help each other through this.”
Patzer was also interviewed on CNN, where she discussed her husband’s sacrifice to protect herself and their three children from the virus.
Watch the CNN interview here, and view Obama and Patzer’s Tweets below:
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