Transcendients: 100 Days of COVID-19

Day 34: Kaytlin Butler

Chaplain at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City

During this pandemic, hospital chaplains must try to comfort the suffering while socially distancing. COVID-19 patients are also isolated and usually not allowed visitors, making the comfort chaplains can provide especially welcome. Chaplains also attend to their healthcare worker colleagues.

Story taken from Elizabeth Barber's article, “The Plight of a Hospital Chaplain
During the Coronavirus Pandemic" (The New Yorker, 14 April 2020)
Original photograph by Caroline Tompkins for The New Yorker

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