Fasting during Ramadan is one of the pillars of Islam, yet for Muslim healthcare workers, observing the holy month may be especially tough this year.
As the director for both the Desert Valley Medical Group in Victorville and a nearby nursing home
Uneven reporting across the country, the CDC added, means the real numbers are almost certainly much higher. “This COVID-19 situation doesn’t really change that normality,” said Dr. Aasim I. Padela, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Chicago Medical Center and director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine.
Muslim medical personnel have been on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 all over the world. The first four doctors to die from the virus in England were Muslim immigrants, and in New York City, a hotbed of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, more than 10% of the pharmacists, clinical laboratory technicians and doctors are Muslim, according to the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
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