Photos: Inside MSF’s unprecedented response to COVID-19 in the United States

In Puerto Rico, an MSF mobile team travels to remote locations to provide home-based care and consultations at “pop-up” clinics.

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A view of the COVID-19 isolation ward inside Gallup Indian Medical Center (GIMC), a hospital in Gallup, New Mexico, in Navajo Nation. MSF advised the GIMC on patient flow for COVID and non-COVID patient and infection prevention control measures.

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MSF team member Yoruba Mitchell unloads a truck carrying hygiene kits for distribution to Loiza communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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MSF infection prevention and control manager Javar Jackson (right) speaks with April Long (left), an occupational therapist at Advantage Living Center in Wayne, Michigan, about how to use PPE to keep herself and residents safe.

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More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths in the US have been in nursing homes. MSF provided in-person training on infection prevention and control and carried out wellness workshops and webinars for nursing home staff in Michigan to cope with the stress of the pandemic.

United States 2020 © Ali Lapetina/MSF