Kansas City Chiefs guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a medical school graduate and volunteered to help recently when his hometown of Montreal experienced a shortage of medical personnel during the coronavirus pandemic.
He was assigned to assist in a long-term care facility. Shortly before his first shift, he was hit by the gravity of what he was about to do.
"It's one thing to want to go work,'' Duvernay-Tardif said Friday. "When you actually get the date of your first shift and everything, that's kind of when everything hits you and you think, 'How am I going to protect myself?