‘We’ll get you through this’: Milwaukee-area volunteers have helped 600 people recover from COVID-19

Alexander Hardy was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Dec. 4.

Hardy, a 64-year-old with Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, got tested because he had been exposed to someone with coronavirus. He felt fine but figured he should get tested anyway.

Hardy said the results threw him for a loop.

“You don’t know what your journey with it is going to be about,” Hardy said.

After he got the news, the first call Hardy made was to Common Ground, a Milwaukee-based nonprofit. A member of his church had gone through a program for people diagnosed with COVID-19, and he thought the program could help.

From there, Hardy was in the hands of a squadron of retired health professionals, licensed clinicians and health care workers.

Read the story at Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.