May 14, 2021
Triage, Respite, and Isolation
COVID-19 and the Lord Baltimore Hotel By Marik Moen IN SPRING 2020, the State of Maryland, with the help of the Army Corps of Engineers, transformed the Baltimore Convention Center into to the 250-bed University of Maryland Medical System Baltimore Convention Center Field Hospital. I was living in Fairfax, Virginia, at the time but was looking for an opportunity to serve in the COVID response — an infectious disease disproportionately affecting populations who have experienced historic discrimination. You could say it was my gig. I went to get oriented and do a few shifts. I heard some pejorative language being...