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On Dying Alone: 'Behind Every COVID-19 Case, There Is A Story'

By Ryan Kellman,

Kristen Radtke

Published June 6, 2020 at 4:00 AM PDT

Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic nonfiction book "Imagine Wanting Only This" (2017), and the forthcoming books "Seek You: Essays on American Loneliness" (2021), for which she received a 2019 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and "Terrible Men", a graphic novel, all from Pantheon. Ryan Kellman is a producer and visuals editor on NPR's science desk.

Ryan Kellman

Ryan Kellman is a producer and visual reporter for NPR's science desk. Kellman joined the desk in 2014. In his first months on the job, he worked on NPR's Peabody Award-winning coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. He has won several other notable awards for his work: He is a Fulbright Grant recipient, he has received a John Collier Award in Documentary Photography, and he has several first place wins in the WHNPA's Eyes of History Awards. He holds a master's degree from Ohio University's School of Visual Communication and a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute.

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Kristen Radtke