Claudia Accardo, ICU transport service at Rome's COVID 3 Spoke Casalpalocco Clinic, poses for a portrait, Friday, March 27, 2020, during a break in her daily shift. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. But that flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift is their only barrier to contagion. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
March 28, 2020
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March 28, 2020 4:14 a.m.
AP PHOTOS: Italy's front-line medical heroes, in portraits
ROME (AP) — Their eyes are tired. Their cheekbones rubbed raw from protective masks. They don’t smile.