Time Magazine has announced its annual gallery of Top 100 most influential people in the world, and among the well-known politicians, artists, scientists, pop culture figures, et al, is Amy O’Sullivan, an intrepid, indefatigable ER nurse at Wyckoff Medical Center here in Bushwick.
Nearly seven months have elapsed since the Covid outbreak, and the exuberant expressions of gratitude for health care workers that once rang out every evening at 7 from the stoops and windowsills of soup ladle-wielding New Yorkers have become greatly subdued. Time’s inclusion of healthcare professionals (Dr. Fauci also made the list), then, is a welcome move, reminding readers of the nurses, orderlies, doctors and EMTs whose job it is to keep us alive.
O’Sullivan was singled out for praise (Katie Couric did the praising, incidentally) partly because she provided care to the woman who would become New York City’s first Covid-related fatality.
