Pat Casey Daley getting Covid test, Murfreesboro, TN 2020

Pat Casey Daley of Murfreesboro has a test for Covid 19 administered by a nurse in the parking lot of the Rutherford County Health Dept. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the health department has tested approximately 53,000 people and vaccinated approximately 50,000, all with a small team of nursing staff. “No easy feat, let me tell you,” says Lashon Miller, RN and director of nursing. “That’s a lot of blood, sweat, and tears right there; all outdoors in extreme weather conditions.”

Photo by Bill Steber
Carbon print from wet plate collodion tintype