The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world much devastation, with a climbing death rate, grocery hoarding and lack of community closeness. However, it also has given us many heroes through their selfless acts.

In order to systematically detect the presence of an invisible asymptomatic pathogen like COVID-19, you must deploy a multilayered systematic approach to identifying the problem and eradicating it.

The country is clouded with a virus that knows no time. Racism is its name.

I have been a medical professional, having completed an internal medicine and pulmonary fellowship, and was one of the first hospitalists in Hampton Roads until 2004. Since then, I have been the medical director for long-term care, or LTC, facilities …

This is a request to skateboarders and electric scooter riders: Please slow down, watch out for pedestrians and give plenty of alert to people you are passing.

Kudos to Gov. Ralph S. Northam for signing common sense legislation that takes first steps in getting rid of the Confederate flotsam and jetsam that litters Virginia communities, undermines our psyches and devalues the lives of generations of enslaved people …

In 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”

We don’t get it. Yes, we understand there is a pandemic going on and many workers have been furloughed or sent home to help stop the spread of COVID-19. But we don’t understand why Damon E. Duncan, the short-timer CEO …

For the foreseeable future, “normal” life will be indefinitely suspended due to the global pandemic known as the coronavirus.

Re “U.Va. enrolls first patient in COVID-19 medication study,” Free Press April 9-11 edition:

Thank you for the Free Press’ continuing objective coverage of the public housing community in the city and for giving Richmond City Council an opportunity to make the needed changes at the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority for the residents …

May this season of renewal and hope give you strength in the face of change, faith to endure uncertainty and peace everlasting.

It is oft stated in the black community that “When the country gets a cold, we get pneumonia.”

The “big and bad” United States is seeing its world dominance recede. We are being van- quished both by a virus and by the ignorance of the commander in chief.

The last few weeks have been difficult for us all. And in these incredibly challenging and scary times, we all are having to make great sacrifices to ensure that we defeat COVID-19 as quickly as possible.As non-essential workers across Virginia …