Dr. Lorna Breen was on the front lines of the pandemic early, and after contracting the disease herself, she tried to recover from COVID by herself at home while trying to run an emergency room remotely. “When she went back into that workforce, many 12-plus hour shifts in a row, the volume of just death and dying on an already depleted worker -- because she was not really recovered from COVID -- was just way too much for any one person to bear,” said Corey Feist, Breen’s brother-in-law and CEO of the University of Virginia Physicans Group.