Stories of COVID-19: Uncertain Future
b'This week, we conclude our final Stories of COVID-19 series with two stories about the lasting impacts of the pandemic. Both of these stories ask: Where do we go from here?\\nPart 1: Months after Howard Lieberman contracts COVID-19 on a business trip in March 2020, he continues to suffer from symptoms of the virus.\\nPart 2: When Monica Hickson drops off her fianc\\xe9, who has been suffering from shortness of breath, at the hospital, she doesn\\u2019t know it\\u2019s the last time she\\u2019ll see him alive.\\nNationally known storyteller Howard Lieberman moved from Brooklyn to bucolic but shockingly Republican Stillwater MN in 1990. His jaded yet surprisingly tender performance style has made him a favorite on the national and, thanks to Zoom, global storytelling scene. Howard is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Storytelling Network.\\nMonica Hickson is a trainer, higher education educator, an instructional designer, and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion facilitator with more than 20 years experience. She works for the University of Michigan as an instructional designer and DEI educator. She is a proud graduate of both Wayne State University as well as Central Michigan University where she obtained both a Bachelor\\u2019s Degree in Journalism and a Master\\u2019s Degree in Education. Monica loved to dance, listen to music, travel the Caribbean, and watch television until, that is, her fianc\\xe9 died of Covid-19 in April...here is her story.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'