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After I returned from a monthslong research trip, my partner sat me down to talk. We'd moved in together shortly before my departure and, in my absence, she'd been pondering our future. “I don't want to leave Toronto. I love it here and so do you,” she said. I was in the third year of my Ph.D., and she worried my career plans would lead us elsewhere, first for a postdoc and then for a faculty position. Deep down, I knew this conversation was coming. Until then I hadn't given the issue much thought, but I knew she was right. I wanted to be with her more than I wanted to be a professor. > “The conversations opened my eyes to a universe of career options.” My partner's career as an operating room nurse was mobile in theory. But she loved the hospital where she worked, loved Toronto (the city where she grew up), and wanted to stick close to friends and family. She wanted to build our life where we were, to make the city our home. During my time in grad school, I had grown to love Tor

Science 's COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation. When not caring for COVID-19 patients—her latest was a man with bacterial lung and blood infections superimposed on SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia—Krutika Kuppalli has been helping oversee the rollout of pandemic vaccines at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), where she's an infectious disease physician. She has also been meeting with vaccine-hesitant hospital staff, sitting on a committee that reviews all planned COVID-19 clinical trials at MUSC, applying for funding to study patients with Long COVID, and handling online harassment that has followed her numerous media appearances and two rounds of congressional testimony last summer. Asked recently during a Zoom interview how she is doing, she paused for nearly 20 seconds, struggling to regain her composure. “We have been busting our butts for 12, 14 months,” she says. “I just feel I'm empty.” From academic research centers to intensive care units (ICU