HEROES OF COVID
A memorial honoring the healthcare workers who sacrificed their lives for us.
Inspired by a request from the brave nurses of reddit.
Not all heroes wear capes. But many wear scrubs.
Please spread the word so we don’t miss any heroes.
Let’s show our healthcare workers how much we appreciate them. ❤️
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Isaac Abadi, MD, 90, Founder, Professor of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Escuela de Medicina Luis Razetti, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Miami, Florida
Musa Fath Abadi, age unknown, Emergency Medicine Specialist, Tehran, Iran
Abdullah Abbasi, age unknown, Infectious Disease Specialist, Gorgan, Iran
Luigi Ablondi, 66, Epidemiologist, Former General Manager of the Crema Hospital, Cremona, Italy
Tahmineh Adibi, age unknown, Nurse, Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Abdel Sattar Airoud, 74, General Practitioner, Piacenza, Italy
Hector Alvarez, age unknown, Physician, Novaliches District Hospital, Novaliches, Philippines
Vincenza Amato, 65, Medical Director Responsible UOS Hygiene Public Health of the Department of Hygiene and Health Prevention, Bergamo, Italy
Afshar Amiri, age unknown, Psychiatrist, Tehran, Iran
Abdulshakur Hazhir Amiri, age unknown, Pharmacist, Rasht, Iran
Larrice Anderson, 46, Nurse, New Orleans East Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana
Hassan Arbab, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Mashhad, Iran
Malik Ashtar, 50, Nursing Staff, Gilgit, Pakistan
Gaetano Autore, 68, General Practitioner, Naples, Italy
Madhvi Aya, 61, Physician Assistant, Emergency Medicine, Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Saeid Azizi, age unknown, Ophthalmologist, Zabol, Iran
Ramin Azizifar, age unknown, Nurse, Tehran, Iran
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Samad Babazadeh, age unknown, General Practitioner, Babol, Iran
Israel Bactol, 34, Cardiologist, Philippine Heart Center, Metro Manila, Philippines
Domenico Bardelli, 75, Dentist, Lodi, Italy
Manuel Barragan, 63, General Practitioner, Cordoba, Spain
Cenover Nicandro "Nicko" Bautista, 33, Physician, Mandaluyong City Medical Center, Manila, Philippines
Kamran Bayat, age unknown, Surgical Technician, Tehran, Iran
Nilufar Esmail Beigi, age unknown, General Practitioner, Tehran, Iran
Anusheh Beikian, age unknown, Obstetrician, Rasht, Iran
Luis Felipe Bernett, 73, Neonatologist and Pediatrician, Panama
Niloofar Esmail Beygi, age unknown, Physician, Moheb Kowsar Hospital, Tehran, Iran
Diego Bianco, 47, Paramedic, Lombardy, Italy
Jean-Marie Boegle, 66, OB-GYN, Mulhouse, France
Marques Bolden, 35, Hospitalist, South Bend, Indiana
Massimo Borghese, 63, Specialist in Otolaryngology and Phoniatrics, Naples, Italy
Giuseppe Borghi, 64, General Practitioner, Lodi, Italy
Araceli Buendia Ilagan, 63, ICU Nurse, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
Antonio Buonomo, 65, Medical Examiner, Naples, Italy
Antonino Buttafuoco, 66, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
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Mario Calonghi, 55, Dentist, Brescia, Italy
Giulio Calvi, 72, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Andrea Carli, 69, General Practitioner, Lodi, Italy
Ricardo Castaneda, 64, Psychiatrist, New York City
Isaura Castermans, 30, Nurse, Genk, Belgium
Rosary Celaya Castro-Olega, 63, Registered Nurse, Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, California
Marino Chiodi, 70, Ophthalmologist, Bergamo, Italy
Marcello Cifola, age unknown, Otolaryngologist, Italy
Francesc Collado, 63, Family Physician, Barcelona, Spain
Aurelio Maria Comelli, 69, Cardiologist, Bergamo, Italy
Benedetto Comotti, 74, Hematologist, Bergamo, Italy
Albert Coll Nus, 63, Family Physician, lleida, Spain
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Francesco Dall'Antonia, 82, Former Primary of Surgery I of Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy
Jeannie Danker, 60, Director of Radiology, OSU Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
Hamidreza Davoudi, age unknown, Pharmacist, Babol, Iran
Siamak Dayushli, age unknown, Pediatrician, Bandar-e Anzali, Iran
Francesco De Alberti, died on March 28, 2020; Former OMCeO President, Lecco, Italy
Francesco De Francesco, 82, Retired, Former Hospital Doctor, Sculptor and Painter, Bergamo, Italy
Domenico De Gilio, 66, General Practitioner, Lecco, Italy
Ahmad Soleimani Doust, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Qom, Iran
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Hanieh Edalati, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Takestan, Iran
Amged el-Hawrani, 55, ENT Specialist, Queen's Hospital Burton, Burton on Trent, England
Adil el-Tayar, 63, Transplant Surgeon, Isleworth, London, England
Ahmed el-Lawah, 50, Professor of Clinical Pathology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Raul D. Eslao, 53, Registered Nurse, Westland, Michigan
Tahereh Esmaili, age unknown, Nurse, Qom, Iran
Raul Garcia Espinoza, 53, Nurse, Centro Medico La Raza, Mexico City, Mexico
Lisa Ewald, 54, Nurse, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
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Antoni Feixa, 57, Doctor, Quirón Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Taghi Ahari Farshchi, age unknown, Pediatrician, Tabriz, Iran
Gino Fasoli, 73, Retired General Practitioner, Brescia, Italy
Mehdi Fathabadi, age unknown, Emergency Medicine, Tehran, Iran
Henry Fernandez, 77, Physician, Pangasinan, Philippines
Barbara Finch, 63, Licensed Practical Nurse, Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center, Emporia, Virginia
Giuseppe Finzi, 62, Hematologist and Contract Professor of Vascular Diseases at the University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Anna Maria Focarete, 69, Provincial Councilor FIMMG, SIMG President and Former Councilor Prov. of the Medici, Lecco, Italy
Francesco Foltrani, 67, General Practitioner, Macerata, Italy
Giovanni Francesconi, 90, General Practitioner, Brescia, Italy
Luigi Frusciante, 71, General Practitioner, Como, Italy
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Frank Gabrin, 60, Emergency Medicine Physician, New York City
Bruna Galavotti, 86, Psychiatrist, Dean of the Women's Medical Association of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Maurizio Galderisi, 65, Cardiologist, Professor of Internal Medicine at the Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy
Franco Galli, 65, General Practitioner, Mantua, Italy
Pilar García, 64, Nurse, Hospital Santa Bárbara, Puertollano, Spain
Ivano Garzena, 48, Dentist, Turin, Italy
Salvacion Rodriguez-Gatchalian, 67, Pediatrician, Infectious Diseases Specialist, Manila, Philippines
Rosario Vittorio Gentile, 67, General Practitioner, Specialist in Allergology and Hematology, Cremona, Italy
Calogero Giabbarrasi, 68, General Practitioner, Caltanissetta, Italy
Raffaele Giura, 80, Pneumologist, Como, Italy
Mario Giovita, 65, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Mohammad Kazem Golresan, age unknown, Laboratory Technician, Yazd, Iran
James T. Goodrich, 73, Neurosurgeon, Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Montefiore Health System, Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Pediatrics, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City
Kourosh Goudarzipour, 49, Hematologist Specialist, Mofid Hospital, Tehran, Iran
Renzo Granata, 68, General Practitioner, Alessandria, Italy
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Thomas Harvey, 57, Healthcare Assistant, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, England
Capt. Douglas Linn Hickok (US Army), 57, Physician Assistant, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Amir Reza Honarkar, age unknown, Physiotherapist, Tehran, Iran
Nader Hosseinpour, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Lahijan, Iran
Ghorbanali Hosseinzadeh, age unknown, Nurse, Kashan, Iran
Alex Hsu, 67, Internal Medicine, Northwest Medical Center, Margate, Florida
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Araceli Buendia Ilagan, 63, ICU Nurse, Miami, Florida
Vahid Irvani, age unknown, Psychiatrist, Tehran, Iran
Goran Ivankovic, 56, Urology, Cuprija, Serbia
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Molud Jafari, age unknown, Nurse, Tehran, Iran
Javad Jalalinia, age unknown, Anesthesiologist, Babol, Iran
Marcelo Jaochico, 56, Chief, Pampanga Pampanga Provincial Health Office, Philippines
Raul Diaz Jara, 71, Cardiologist, Philippines
Jiang Xueqing, 55, Head of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan, China
Hossein Johari, age unknown, ENT Specialist, Qom, Iran
Norman Jones, 72, Cardiologist, Former Cardiology Chief of the Trabattoni-Ronzoni Rehabilitation Center in Seregno, Como, Italy
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Shahrouz Karimian, age unknown, Nurse, Tehran, Iran
Vahid Mosef Kasmaei, age unknown, Emergency Medicine Specialist, Rasht, Iran
Zabihullah Kaviani, age unknown, Healthcare Worker, Borujen, Iran
Kious Kelly, 48, ER Nurse, Mount Sinai West, New York City
Mohsen Khadem, age unknown, Operating Room Nurse, Kashan, Iran
Narges Khanalizadeh, 25, Nurse, Milad Lahijan Hospital, Lahijan, Iran
Gholamreza Vosughi Kia, age unknown, Nurse, Rasht, Iran
Soheil Kianfar, 43, Urologist, Pars Hospital, Rasht, Iran
Kim King-Smith, 53, EKG Technician, Newark, New Jersey
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Theresa Lacoco, 68, Pediatric Nurse, Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York
Giuseppe Lanati, 73, Pulmonologist, Como, Italy
Michele Lauriola, 67, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Vincenzo Leone, 65, General Practitioner, Vice President of SNAMI, Bergamo, Italy
Marco Lera, 68, Dentist, Lucca, Italy
Li Wenliang, 33, Ophthalmologist, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan, China
Liu Fan, 59, Nurse, Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, China
Liu Zhiming, 51, Director of Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, China
Biljana Natic Ljumovic, 59, OB-GYN, Niš, Serbia
Gabriele Lombardi, 68, Dentist, Brescia, Italy
Sara Bravo López, 28, General Practitioner, Cuenca, Spain
Hamid Lotfi, age unknown, Orthopedic Surgeon, Rasht, Iran
Roberto Mario Lovotti, 69, General Practitioner, Milan, Italy
Piero Lucarelli, 74, Anesthesiologist, Bergamo, Italy
Viviane "Vivi" Rocha de Luiz, 61, Nurse, Brasília, Brazil
Francisco Avelino Siy Lukban, 62, Cardiologist, Metro Manila, Philippines
Rosario Lupo, 65, Medical Examiner, Manager of the INPS Legal Medical Center of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
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Romeo Gregorio "Greg" Macasaet III, 62, Anesthesiologist, Manila Doctors Hospital, Manila, Philippines
Antonio Maghernino, 59, Medical Continuity Doctor, Foggia, Italy
Hamidreza Mahini, age unknown, General Practitioner, Pakdasht, Iran
Giuseppe Maini, 74, General Practitioner, Piacenza, Italy
Abdulghani Taki Makki, 78, Dentist, Italy
Gholamali Manavian, age unknown, General Practitioner, Sari, Iran
Leonardo Marchi, 65, Infectious Disease Doctor, Medical Director of the San Camillo Nursing Home, Cremona, Italy
Christopher David Matus, 46, Medical Examiner Investigator, Swartz Creek, Michigan
Arturo Olvera Martínez, age unknown, Physician, Hidalgo, Mexico
Denise Roxana Murillo Martínez, 56, Primary Care Physician, San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Julián Santos-Gonzalez Martinez, 64, Secretary of Medicine, College Albacete, Albacete, Spain
Ivan Mauri, 69, General Practitioner, Lecco, Italy
Mohammad Ghader Norouz Mehr, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Rasht, Iran
Rabbi Yaakov Meltzer, 60, Physician Assistant, Brooklyn, New York
Cynthia "Chi" Mendoza, 68, Retired Nurse and Hospital Volunteer, Norfolk, Virginia
Roberto Mileti, 59, Gynecologist, Rome, Italy
Sorena Mirmirani, age unknown, Psychologist, Amol, Iran
Mohammad Mohammadi, age unknown, General Practitioner, Rasht, Iran
Isabel Muñoz, 59, General Practitioner, Salamanca, Spain
Vahid Monsef, age unknown, Emergency Medicine Specialist, Gilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran
Ali Sheikh Moradi, age unknown, Nurse, Rasht, Iran
Seyyedeh Azemat Mousavi, age unknown, Obstetrician, Sari, Iran
William "Bill" Murdock, 63, MRI Technologist, Miami, Florida
John F. Murray, 92, Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California
Seyyed Yousef Musavi, age unknown, General Practitioner, Golestan, Iran
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Areema Nasreen, 36, Nurse, Walsall Manor Hospital, Walsall, UK
Marcello Natali, 56, General Practitioner, Secretary of the Federation of General Practitioners of Lodi, Lodi, Italy
Iraj Ebrahimi Nezhad, age unknown, General Practitioner, Babol, Iran
Reza Kouchaki Nia, age unknown, Pediatrician, Rasht, Iran
Farid Niruyi, age unknown, Surgeon, Babol, Iran
Nahid Noshad, age unknown, Nurse, Gilan, Iran
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Freda Ocran, 50, Psychiatric Nurse, Jacobi Medical Center, New York City
Aimee O'Rourke, 39, Nurse, Margate, Kent, UK
José Manuel Sanchez Ortega, age unknown, General Surgery, Barcelona, Spain
Feriha Oz, 87, Pathologist, Professor, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey
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Carlo Alberto Passera, 62, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Tomas Pattugalan, 70, Internal Medicine Physician, Queens, New York
Habibullah Peiravi, age unknown, Vascular Surgeon, Tehran, Iran
Hugo Díez Pérez, 62, Neurologist, Asuncion, Paraguay
Dino Pesce, 74, Internist Physician, Former General Physician at the Villa Scassi Hospital in Sampierdarena, Genoa, Italy
Esmaeil Bakhshi Pour, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Fouman, Iran
Reza Poursaki, age unknown, Nurse, Abadan, Iran
Rosalinda "Rose" Pulido, 46, Oncologist, San Juan de Dios Hospital, Pasay City, Philippines
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Mohammad Ali Rabi'e, age unknown, General Practitioner, Shaft, Iran
Seyyed Mozaffar Rabi'e, age unknown, Anesthesiologist, Babol, Iran
Shirin Rouhani Rad, age unknown, General Practitioner, Pakdasht, Iran
Hermes Roberto Radtke, 43, Physician, Radiology, Fortaleza, Brazil
Raola Ragutam, age unknown, Internal Medicine, Saveh, Iran
Mahen Ramloll, 70, General Practitioner, France
Gita Ramjee, 64, HIV Researcher; Chief Scientific Officer, Aurum Institute, Durban, South Africa
Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy, 67, Emergency Doctor, Lille, France
Mark Respler, 66, Urologist, Brooklyn, New York
Leandro Resurreccion III, 57, Pediatric Transplant Surgeon, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, the Philippines
Gualberto Reyes, 45, Emergency Medicine Physician, Mexico
Walberto Reyes de la Cruz, age unknown, Urologist, Monclova, Mexico
Usama Riaz, 26, Physician, Gilgit, Pakistan
Guido Riva, 78, General Practitioner, Bergamo, Italy
Luigi Rocca, 93, Pediatrician, Piacenza, Italy
Roghieh Ronaghi, age unknown, Healthcare Worker, Someh Sara, Iran
Flavio Roncoli, 89, Retired, Bergamo, Italy
Arastu Rostamnezhad, age unknown, General Practitioner, Pakdasht, Iran
Reza Rusta, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Tehran, Iran
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Alfa Saadu, 68, Former Medical Director, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Essex and Ealing NHS Trust, Harlow, England
Mario Luigi Salerno, 68, Physiatrist, Bari, Italy
Mostafa Samadi, age unknown, Pediatrician, Babol, Iran
Usman Sani, 48, Pathologist, Malaysia
Jose Ramon Izquierdo Sanz, 61, General Practitioner, Cuenca, Spain
Gianpaolo Sbardolini, age unknown, General Practitioner, Italy
Olivier-Jacques Schneller, 68, General Practitioner, Trévenans, France
Stephen Schwartz, 78, Pathologist, Seattle, Washington
Raquel Seva, age unknown, OB-GYN, Laguna, Philippines
Sa'adat Shakibayi, age unknown, Nurse, Yasouj, Iran
Mahmoud Shamsuddini, age unknown, Hospital Staff, Yazd, Iran
Pooja Sharma, 33, Clinical Pharmacist, Eastbourne Hospital, UK
Ardeshir Shiran, age unknown, General Practitioner, Isfahan, Iran
Ali Mahmood Khan Shirazi, age unknown, General Practitioner, Shiraz, Iran
Marino Signori, age unknown, Occupational Physician, Italy
Song Yingjie, 28, Hospital Pharmacist, Wuhan, China
Manfredo Squeri, 75, Former Hospital Physician, Head of the Medicine Department in the Piccole Figlie di Parma Nursing Home affiliated with SSN, Parma, Italy
Roberto Stella, 57, General Practitioner, Varese, Italy
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Valter Tarantini, 71, Gynecologist, Forlì Cesena, Italy
Cemil Tascioglu, 67, Professor of Internal Medicine at Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
Juan Miguel Ochoa Tejeda, 62, Plastic Surgeon, Campina, São Paulo, Brazil
Giulio Titta, 73, General Practitioner, Former Secretary of FIMMG, Turin, Italy
Gaetana Trimarchi, 57, General Practitioner, Messina, Italy
Israel Tolentino, 33, Emergency Medical Technician, Passaic, New Jersey
Abbas Tousan, age unknown, ENT Specialist, Surgeon, Babol, Iran
Dennis Ramon Tudtud, age unknown, Oncologist, Cebu, Philippines
Helen Tudtud, 66, Pathologist, Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center, Cebu, Philippines
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Marcello Ugolini, 70, Pulmonologist, Councilor of the Medical Association, Pesaro Urbino, Italy
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Mehdi Variji, age unknown, General Practitioner, Tehran, Iran
Ivano Vezzulli, 61, General Practitioner, Sports Physician, Lodi, Italy
Denis Vincent, 62, Dentist, North Vancouver, Canada
Morteza Vojdan, age unknown, General Practitioner, Mashhad, Iran
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Wang Tucheng, 27, Doctor, Henan's Xinwangzhuang village, China
Sylvain Welling, 60, General Practitioner, France
Diedre Wilkes, 42, Mammogram Technician, Piedmont Newnan Hospital, Newnan, Georgia
Judy Wilson-Griffin, age unknown, Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist, SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri
Leone Marco Wischkin, 71, Internist, Pesaro Urbino, Italy
Liang Wudong, 62, ENT Specialist, Hubei Xinhau Hospital, Wuhan, China
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Xia Sisi, 29, Gastroenterologist, Union Jiangbei Hospital, Wuhan, China
Xu Hui, 51, Leader of a hospital's virus control group, Nanjing, China
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Esmail Yazdi, age unknown, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Tehran, Iran
Peng Yinhua, 29, Respiratory doctor, First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District, Wuhan, China
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Mohammad Bakhshali Zadeh, age unknown, General Practitioner, Rasht, Iran
Narjes Khanali Zadeh, 25, Nurse, Lahijan, Iran
Iman Moein Zadeh, age unknown, Nurse, Astaneh Ashrafieh, Iran
Habib Zaidi, 76, General Practitioner, Eastwood Group Practice, Leigh-on-Sea, England
Carlo Zavaritt, 80, Pediatrician and Child Neuropsychiatrist, Bergamo, Italy
Hamidreza Zeinali, age unknown, Pharmacist, Tehran, Iran
Mei Zhongming, 57, Ophthalmologist, Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan, China
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