Documenting COVID-19: Stony Brook University Experiences

Healthcare Hero: Molly Rago, Oncology Research Nurse

Stony Brook University

Griffin, John (staff)

Stony Brook University. University Libraries

I work at the Stony Brook Cancer Center and help get patients onto clinical trials for different treatments, radiation, surgery, and other interventions. I help get them into the studies and monitor them throughout their time in the trials, as well as during follow up. When COVID hit last spring, I was reassigned to a COVID-19 study that was meant to take donated plasma from those who recovered from the Coronavirus and infuse it in existing COVID-positive patients. The study has since ended, but I am definitely keeping busy back at the Cancer Center. COVID changed a lot for cancer patients. Not only do they have an extra layer of concern being immunocompromised, but they can’t have loved ones physically with them right now while they receive treatment. It’s an extremely difficult time for everybody. While being called a hero is flattering, I don’t really consider myself to be one. Or at least I’m no different from my colleagues. Everybody has been impacted by COVID, and everybody has stepped up. In my book, everybody is a hero."

Stony Brook University

COVID-19 (Disease) -- Treatment

Clinical trials

Medical personnel

Stony Brook University. University Hospital

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2021-06-13