He helped coronavirus patients stay alive. To get there, he borrowed $160,000 in student loans
"On the day I walked in, many patients were on ventilators," said Nigro, 33, who was stationed atNigro spent the month trying to find ways to keep people breathing, and talking to panicked family members. "Nothing can prepare you for the amount of death this virus has caused," he said. "It was crushing."
Yet despite the intense month, one thing that never moved from the back of his mind: The $160,000 in student loans he took out to become a health-care worker.Source: Tom Nigro Many of the doctors and nurses working beside Nigro during the pandemic were likely plagued by a similar debt load., according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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