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better prepared for, people did heroic work. Whenever there's a disaster, the children's TV host Fred Rogers used to say, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." During COVID, it takes very little looking to find the helpers. They are everywhere, and I've had the pleasure of meeting some of them and learning about many more. Every day for five months of 2020, as a COVID-19 tester in Bangalore, India, Shilpashree A.S. would put on a protective gown, goggles, latex gloves, and a mask. (Like many people in India, she uses initials referring to her hometown and her father's name as her last name.) Then she'd step into a tiny booth with two holes for her arms and spend hours performing nasal swab tests on long lines of patients. To protect her family, she had no physical contact with themfor five months they saw each other only on video calls.4 <~?~Insert 011_Gate_9780593534489_art_r1> A COVID-19 tester takes samples from a patient in Bangalore, India, while stationed inside of a booth and wearing protective gear. Thabang Seleke was one of 2,000 volunteers in Soweto, South Africa, to participate in a study on the effectiveness of the COVID vaccine developed at Oxford University. The stakes for his country were high: In just six months in 2020, more than 600,000 people were diagnosed with COVID and more than 13,000 people have died from it. Thabang heard about the trial from a friend and stepped forward to join to help bring an end to the coronavirus in Africa and beyond. Sikander Bizenjo left his job at a business school in Karachi and went to his home province of Balochistan, a dry, mountainous region in southwestern Pakistan where 70 percent of