Stltoday.com – Metro: Nurse graduates just as COVID-19 takes hold in St. Louis

Julie Akufuna, an RN in the intensive care unit at Mercy Hospital South, poses on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, outside the south St. Louis County medical campus. Akafuna started there in the middle of the pandemic. Despite being overwhelmed with more death than ever dreamed because of COVID-19 patients, she still thinks she