Catharine Richert
@catharinerichert.bsky.social
Minnesota Public Radio News reporter. Covering all things SE MN. Tips and rants welcome. NC -> OH -> DC -> MN.
And there was this unexpected bright spot in those dark month. After hearing our story, Peggy Jones - a total stranger - reached out to Jeanette and invited her family to her up north cabin. The two have been friends ever since.
After a grueling year in the ICU and at George Floyd Square, an unexpected friendship
More than a year after two epidemics — of COVID-19 and racial injustice — collided in Jeanette Rupert’s world, the nurse and social justice activist says she’s learned no one person can go it alone. I...
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May 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
And there was this unexpected bright spot in those dark month. After hearing our story, Peggy Jones - a total stranger - reached out to Jeanette and invited her family to her up north cabin. The two have been friends ever since.
When I met Jeanette in 2020, she was an ICU nurse treating Covid patients and volunteering in George Floyd Square with her siblings.
With pictures from the wonderful Evan Frost.
With pictures from the wonderful Evan Frost.
In the ICU and at George Floyd Square, one nurse fights two pandemics
Nurse Jeanette Rupert is hard to keep up with. When she's not treating COVID-19 patients in the ICU, she's dispensing medical care at George Floyd Square, just blocks from where she was born and raise...
www.mprnews.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
When I met Jeanette in 2020, she was an ICU nurse treating Covid patients and volunteering in George Floyd Square with her siblings.
With pictures from the wonderful Evan Frost.
With pictures from the wonderful Evan Frost.