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Hochman: Former Mizzou basketball player TJ Soyoye is doctor on front line of COVID-19

The front line forever will mean something different to the former Mizzou basketball center who once played on it.

Tajudeen “TJ” Soyoye, who played alongside Arthur Johnson two decades ago, is now Dr. Soyoye. He’s in Columbus, Ga., about 90 miles from Atlanta. He’s treating emergency room patients who have COVID-19.

“We are the front line,” Soyoye said by phone Monday. “It’s been emotional. I know people who have died from this disease.”

“A man had lost a daughter, 34 years old,” Soyoye said. “Because of that situation, they moved out of their house, just to kind of escape from that virus, and they moved into a hotel — and guess what?