Emily Dabkowski spent a softball career standing 70 feet away from a batter launching a ball at 70 miles an hour. Her reaction time at second base was less than one second.
But this is what scares the 26-year old.
"I constantly fear that I'm going to get [COVID-19]," said Dabkowski, now an ER nurse in Fresno, California. "I don't want to get anyone else sick. It would be the death of me if I knew that it was me that got anyone else sick."
That's why Dabkowski has traded in her regular scrubs for personal protective equipment (PPE) that looks less Florence Nightingale and more Bruce Willis in Armageddon.