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Nurse dies of COVID-19 after coming out of retirement to teach front-line workers
nurse who gave up her retirement to train a new generation of front-line workers for the pandemic has died, after contracting COVID-19 in north Texas.Iris Meda died in a hospital earlier this month following complications from the coronavirus, which struck her while she was sharing her knowledge as a nursing instructor.Meda called it a career in January, but she came back in August to share her expertise with high school and college students, according to her daughter, Selene Meda-Schlamel.“Because of the pandemic, she wanted to train other front-line workers to help in this crisis,” Meda-Schlamel told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth.