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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: A Coroner Fights COVID-19 in a Georgia Town [Watch (HLS stream): A Coroner Fights COVID-19 in a Georgia Town](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/02Z7LqXD.m3u8) (3:37)  _Published 2020-04-08. Covid-19 has hit Dougherty County, Ga. particularly hard and Michael Fowler, the coroner there, says it's different from any other disaster he's ever worked on._ --- Oct 10, 2023 4:33 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Watch the Biggest Moments From King Charles III's Coronation](/video/HjO97pBm/) ### Watch the Biggest Moments From King Charles III's Coronation [President Trump Says He's Taking Hydroxychloroquine, Which Remains Unproven for Fighting COVID-19](/video/HSmaIx3X/) ### President Trump Says He's Taking Hydroxychloroquine, Which Remains Unproven for Fighting COVID-19 [Coronal Mass Ejections and Earth Climate](/video/4eeUlNKP/) ### Coronal Mass Ejections and Earth Climate --- ## Transcript Hey, how you doing? Good. Got another case? There's a 90 year old female. A lot of time deals come at night. My following, the steady ringing so many families are calling. Want to know? Have their loved one been tested? I reckon mine drilling just going. I mean, I just want to be there to assist the family as much as I possibly can to get them ounces. Know when we bring the remains in to bring them over here. I think March 15, that's the first day, my first day off came in. Then I had another day death 3 a.m. on the same day and all of them had the same symptoms. We had them tested. All three of them came back positive. So we just shocking what we have a we have a pandemic here. What do we have? You look forward to happen to me in a big city because you have so many people there. But here in a small city. Well, how did it happen and why did it happen here? It was just a shock to this community. It will no fault tit if our home. But it would just about it came on notice. An unknown and is spreading among our community. It just it just went like wildfire. It would just like a bomb hit here just ahead that I will in New York for the World Trade Center. We had all the different want to sign it. I worked the world Trade Center and in New York, I did the tsunami. Thousands of death, Puerto Rico, Irma maria. This disaster is completely different from, you know, the disaster that I've worked because you can't see the virus. You don't know who is contagious, who is not contagious, who have the virus, who don't have the virus. So it's a walking mystery when we walk into one house. Now, I used to go in with my suit on talking to the families send out to console them. Now, I can't do that. I got to put on topic. I got to put on the mayor's. My job is to pronounce death. Find out why a person died. But on the other token, I want to save lives. Not only when I get a call saying that we have a deceased person. I asked the question. And have the person been a spouse? I've been around someone with the virus. I'm trying to seek and find out who may be infected so I can let their family members know You need to go get tested. You need to do something because we don't want you to die. Also, we're here at the courthouse and I mean, it is so quiet, you can hear a pin drop. I mean, it is so quiet is on real that so many people, though, obeying the orders and staying in. And I know my hat's off to them. You're going to take time to recover because many of us live paycheck to paycheck. Many are working in their restaurants for tips, not not working. So the rent, but getting behind the light bill to do. I believe we're going to come back. We're going to come back stronger just a matter of time. 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