Kyle McCarthy has been wheelchair-bound since contracting EVD-68 in elementary school. His mother, Debbie, says the family hopes to purchase a…

In early March as the Covid-19 virus spread across China and Italy, it appeared to be a distant but increasingly inevitable train-wreck, a crisis hurtling down a fixed trajectory towards world-historic proportions. As anxiety grew, Chris Hipskind, a shop teacher at Columbia High School in White Salmon, invited members of his local industrial advisory committee to discuss whether there was anything they could do to help fight the pandemic.

In January, light years before most people were paying attention to COVID-19, Jeff Stewart saw the early signs of serious trouble.