Photojournalist-turned-nurse who takes pictures of COVID patients says his life has changed since CBS News profile
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When Alan Hawes goes to work at the Medical University of South Carolina, he brings with him a special ability — a talent, really — that he uses when he cares for the sickest of the sick COVID-19 patients: he takes pictures of what people outside the hospital would never see.
That's because before he became a nurse 11 years ago, Hawes spent 23 years as a newspaper photographer, and that gives him the ability to tell the stories of these patients. His work on the front lines of the pandemic gave himself and the world some powerful perspective.
"CBS Mornings" lead national correspondent David Begnaud first told Hawes' story last January. He recently spoke with Hawes again as part of a new weeklong "CBS Mornings" series where Begnaud is checking in with people he's introduced us to over the past few years to ask one simple question: "How are you now?"
