--- description: Read the stories of the courageous workers risking their own lives to save ours during the COVID-19 pandemic. title: Meet the Heroes of the Front Lines image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfcd06a4feefd325c/698a0c99929fad6170bf5f65/frontline-workers-hub-page-featured.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- # Heroes of the Front Lines Stories of the courageous workers risking their own lives to save ours ## Eye of the Storm *  [A Paramedic's Diary of One Week With Coronavirus Patients](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5817857/paramedic-coronavirus-diary/) byTIME Staff *  [Front Line Workers Tell Their Own Stories in the New Issue of TIME](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816805/coronavirus-front-line-workers-issue/) byEdward Felsenthal * ['It Hit Like a Bomb.' A Georgia Coroner on How the Coronavirus Is Ravaging His Community](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816891/coroner-georgia-coronavirus/) byTIME Staff *  ['We Won’t Let Him Die in Our Ambulance.' A Day With a Paramedic Facing the Coronavirus Pandemic](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5815747/coronavirus-paramedic-experience/) byCharlotte Alter/Yonkers, N.Y. *  [As a Nurse, I Took an Oath to Take Care of People. But My Children and Husband Didn't Sign Up to Get Sick](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816899/nurse-family-coronavirus/) byTIME Staff *  [The Country Won’t Work Without Them. 12 Stories of People Putting Their Lives on the Line to Help Others During Coronavirus](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816885/frontline-workers-coronavirus/) byTIME Staff *  [TIME for Giving: Support Frontline Organizations Helping in Fight Against Coronavirus](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5817906/coronavirus-help/) byTIME Staff * [Inside the Army Corps of Engineers' Race to Build Emergency Coronavirus Hospitals](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816877/emergency-hospitals-coronavirus/) byW.J. Hennigan *  [My Husband Died Trying to Protect His Bus Passengers From Coronavirus. Please Stay Home So His Death Isn't In Vain](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816894/jason-hargrove-bus-driver-coronavirus/) byTIME Staff *  ['Please, God, Just Cover Me.' Health Care Workers Are Risking Their Lives Daily in the Fight Against Coronavirus](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816883/health-care-workers-coronavirus/) byTIME Staff *  ['This Could Be the Last Thing I Do on Earth.' A Michigan Doctor Was Going to Retire. Then Came the Coronavirus](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816888/doctor-coronavirus-retirement/) byTIME Staff *  ['We’re Definitely Spreading It.' Flight Attendants Fear They Are Losing the Fight Against the Coronavirus](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5815492/flight-attendants-coronavirus/) byVera Bergengruen *  [I'm A Doctor Who Survived Ebola. Here's Why Coronavirus Scares Me](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816893/ebola-coronavirus-doctor/) byTIME Staff *  ['I’ve Never Been So Afraid.' 5 Employees on the Everyday Terror of Working in Grocery Stores During the Pandemic](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816884/grocery-store-workers-coronavirus/) byTIME Staff * ['It's Tough to Reconcile Being Both Celebrated and Villainized.' An Asian-American Doctor on the Challenges of the Coronavirus Pandemic](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816886/asian-american-doctor-coronavirus/) byTIME Staff *  [My Family Wants Me to Stay Home Because of the Coronavirus. But As a Doctor, It's My Duty to Save Lives](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816887/coronavirus-moral-duty-doctors/) byTIME Staff * [From Homeless to Health Director: Meet the Woman Fighting to Flatten the Coronavirus Curve in Ohio](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816890/amy-acton-ohio-coronavirus/) byAbby Vesoulis / COLUMBUS, OH *  [I'm a Doctor Recovering From COVID-19\. I Can't Get Over the Government's Callousness for Human Life](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5812495/doctor-covid-19-coronavirus/) byDr. Laura Mulvey * [The Italian Doctor Flattening the Curve by Treating COVID-19 Patients in Their Homes](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816874/italy-coronavirus-patients-treating-home/) byFrancesca Berardi / Turin, Italy * [Watch a New York City First Responder Detail Her Experience on the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Outbreak](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5817916/first-responder-coronavirus-outbreak/) byJosiah Bates *  [Inside the Hour-by-Hour Schedule of a Respiratory Therapist Fighting COVID-19 in Seattle](/collections/coronavirus-heroes/5816892/coronavirus-respiratory-therapist-seattle/) byAbigail Abrams Meet the Heroes of the Front Lines of the Coronavirus Fight ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/coronavirus-heroes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/coronavirus-heroes/"},"headline":"Heroes of the Front Lines","description":"Stories of the courageous workers risking their own lives to save ours","url":"https://time.com/collections/coronavirus-heroes/","datePublished":"2026-03-17T00:08:24.161Z","dateModified":"2026-03-17T00:08:23.896Z","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156}},"mainEntity":{"@type":"ItemList","numberOfItems":21,"itemListOrder":"Descending"},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfcd06a4feefd325c/698a0c99929fad6170bf5f65/frontline-workers-hub-page-featured.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/covid-19/","name":"COVID-19"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/coronavirus-heroes/","name":"Heroes of the Front Lines"}}]}] ```