{"id":21475,"date":"2021-07-09T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=21475"},"modified":"2023-03-17T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:19:53","slug":"more-pictures-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2021\/07\/09\/more-pictures-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pictures of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ginny A. Roth ~<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cover of The Vitals: True Nurse Stories<\/em>, published by\u00a0Marvel Comics in collaboration with Allegheny Health Network (AHN), 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three months ago Circulating Now<\/em> published a post presenting new acquisitions related to COVID-19<\/a>. As vaccination rates rise in our region, NLM’s collection of COVID-19 visual materials also continues to grow steadily.<\/p>\n

Seen above is the cover of The Vitals: True Nurse Stories<\/a>, <\/em>an award-winning digital comic book published in December 2020 by Marvel Comics<\/a> in collaboration with Allegheny Health Network (AHN)<\/a> to honor their nurses who worked on the front lines during the height of the pandemic in Western Pennsylvania. The true nurse stories taken from colleagues, patients, and patient families across AHN’s 13 hospital facilities in Pennsylvania were collected by Marvel and transformed into a comic book staring the selfless and courageous “superheroes” the nurses are in real life.<\/p>\n

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“Front Line,” lithograph by artist Terrance Osborne, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans artist Terrance Osborne also captures the powerful spirit of the front-line nurse in his lithograph, Front Line, <\/em>featuring an African-American nurse wearing scrubs with a tattoo on her bicep. The description for the print on his website includes the phrase, “this is for the front-liners.”<\/p>\n

Finding ways to explain illnesses to children can be challenging and one creative format for doing so is with coloring books. NLM has several in the collection that address health topics including AIDS<\/a> and pediculosis<\/a>. Coloring books, along with an understanding and patient caregiver, can be used as a tool to help children express their feelings when they are worried and confused about COVID-19.<\/p>\n