Former soccer alum Diana Puckett knows what it's like to be amid a pandemic storm. As a radiologic technologist at a Level 1 Trauma Hospital in Detroit, her duties have shifted from the operating room to the inpatient portion of the hospital where COVID-19 patients are admitted. COVID-19 has hit Detroit and the metro area, where Puckett lives, especially hard in the last month.
"This month has been crazy. We go from everything being normal, to having COVID-19 people in our state, then to our city, and then our hospital," said Puckett. "We were all very concerned at the beginning of the outbreak on how the hospital would treat us (healthcare workers), and how we would be affected.