Daily News | Philadelphia COVID hero and state rep Tariq Khan subject of short film
Tarik Khan doesn’t get much sleep. The nurse practitioner-turned-House rep became a hometown heroto some 900 homebound Philadelphians in the last two years before those shots — which he calls “angel doses” — expired. Getting home at 1 a.m. after driving across the city, he would chip away at his dissertation each night. The next day, he’d do it all over again.
“That sense of urgency never stopped,” said Khan, who was elected to the Pennsylvania State House last May after. As a Philly native who started his career in acting, Khan is comfortable talking to people, whether as a frontline nurse delivering a shot or now as a politician checking in on his neighbors.
“Tarik is a man with very few attachments,” said the director. “There is this really deep, emotional relationship that Tarik had with this other living thing. I’m still really moved by that sacrifice…Thousands of people are dying every day, and I can do something to help them. But doing that, I might not see my best friend.”
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