Covid Warriors: Lung Savers

by Andrea Harris

In November 2020 I was laid off under a COVID-19 Restructuring Plan. Moved from LA to DC in January. Diagnosed with COVID-19 in late February. Spent 31 days in hospital and 60+ days outpatient recovering. These series of events lead me to reevaluate my life and what is most important to me. So I decided to leave a 20+ year career in finance to pursue something that I love…WRITING CHILDREN’S BOOKS!!! I am extremely happy to be pursuing a career that will be giving back to the community and enriching the lives of children.
I am please to announce the launch of my first book; “COVID WARRIORS/ LUNG SAVERS”. During my stay in the hospital I was impacted greatly by two respiratory therapist who saved my life. I became very concerned with how young children are being affected by the noise of COVID-19. This book provides young children, age 0-7, with a way to process what COVID-19 and offers a segue for parents to lead discussions about this awful disease. In, addition the book offers young girls a peek at a profession that they may never hear of. Respiratory therapists are at the heart of COVID-19 recovery.

31 pages, Paperback

Published June 13, 2021

About the author

Andrea Harris is an Associate Professor of dance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Certified Movement Analyst. She is the author of several essays on dance history, with particular expertise in American modernist dance during the Depression through Cold War periods. She is the winner of the 2016 Honorable Mention for the Gertrude Lippincott Award, awarded for the best English language article on dance published that year by the Society of Dance History Scholars. She holds an MFA in Dance from Texas Christian University, and a PhD in Theatre Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been on the dance faculties of the Universidad de las Américas, Sam Houston State University, the University of Oklahoma, and Texas Christian University. As a performer, she choreographed numerous works and danced with companies including Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth, Li Chiao-Ping Dance, and the Martha Graham Dance Company.

Reviews

[Cara Byrne]

One of the few books about the pandemic that shows a child hospitalized and ill.