COVID Barbies

On August 4, 2021, as a tribute to the women on the frontline in the fight against COVID, Mattel introduced the "ThankYouHeroes" program, featuring professor Sarah Gilbert, a vaccine expert who headed the development of the University of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in the United Kingdom; Amy O'Sullivan, an emergency room nurse at the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY who treated the first COVID-19 patient in the area; Dr. Chika Stacy Oriuwa, a psychiatry…