In March, Zoe Rana Mungin (30) wasn’t admitted to a clinical trial for Remdesivir. Her sister Mia turned to Twitter for help. Zoe, a writer and teacher, had been denied a COVID test twice. The *3rd* time Zoe went to Brookdale Hospital, she was put on a ventilator a day later.

After a month-long fight for her life, Zoe Mungin died on April 27, 2020 at 12:25pm in the same hospital where another sister died of an asthma attack at the age of 20.

Zoe’s sister Mia was denied a COVID test *four times* despite being a nurse in NYC during the height of this pandemic! Mia was “assumed” sick from exposure. Rana’s symptoms were dismissed as a “panic attack.”

When I hear the name Remdesivir, a still-experimental drug, I remember the agony of Mia Mungin, pleading with the public and politicians on behalf of her little sister.

May Zoe Rana Mungin (1989-2020) and her family dwell in peace after their torment.

Zoe went to Wellesley and got her MFA from Amherst. It’s very likely we had friends and instructors in common. It’s entirely possible we studied similar texts, grappled with similar writing questions, even sat in the same NY audience at a reading.

According to UMass: “Her MFA thesis, titled Sed Ministrare, was a collection of linked short stories that followed an intergenerational Black family living in Brooklyn. She was working to complete this book at the time of her death.” http://quarterlywest.press/?p=1464blank