From Super Bowl winner to medical doctor! Laurent Duvernay-Tardif joins coronavirus frontline

An NFL player who was the part of Super Bowl-winning team Kansas City Chiefs is now on the front line fighting against coronavirus as a medical doctor.

Chiefs' Right Guard Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, who is also at a "nursing role" at a long-term care facility in Montreal.

Laurent was picked in the sixth round of the 2014 NFL draft, in 2018 he earned his doctorate in medicine degree from McGill University Canada. He has gone back to his native country to help them in the fight against coronavirus.

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He wrote an article in a sports magazine talking about the role and difficulties he faced, "I fell into a gray area where they didn't know what to do with me, because I don't have a license to practice -- yet," Duvernay-Tardif wrote on how difficult it was for him to come back to the medical field. "In the interim, officials briefed me on an almost daily basis, and I used my platform and credentials to relay their messages."

He was cleared to assist medical professionals, and he took a crash course learning the steps of sanitizing and putting the surgical gown.

"That stuff is more important than ever, to protect not only yourself but your patients," he wrote.

"There's so much that needs to happen just to visit with every patient -- masks donned and hands washed and equipment like gloves and visors tugged on and off and thrown away. I handled a medication cart, making sure to administer the right dosage and in the proper way. Honestly, I was drained after -- and looking forward to going back," Duvernay-Tardif wrote.