'I am not a hero, I am a nurse,' she says.
, nurse Rachel Pochop traveled from her home in Florence, Alabama, to work on the front lines of the crisis.
"There were very long days; you almost got into a robotic mode of doing this over and over again," Pochop said in a video diary shared with ABC News. Pochop posted an emotional message on social media describing her experience and how the coronavirus outbreak is placing a heavy toll on medical workers, patients and families who are grieving the loss of loved ones.wrote in a Facebook post
Rachel Pochop, from Florence, Alabama, traveled to New York City to treat coronavirus patients as a nurse at several area hospitals for three weeks in April 2020.
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