Herton EscobarScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.SÃO PAULO—Brazilian physical therapist Graziela Domingues is waging a life-and-death struggle against COVID-19.
As head of the rehabilitation team at the Emilio Ribas Institute of Infectious Diseases hospital here, she helps COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit exercise their lungs—all the while taking every possible precaution not to get infected and carry the virus home to her family.
So when Domingues heard the hospital was recruiting volunteers for a COVID-19 vaccine trial, she didn’t hesitate. “I just want this suffering to be over,” Domingues told Science.More than 6 months after the first COVID-19 case was.