Hannah Hyatt, a 10-year-old girl from Denver wrote a song - with help from her dad - for her mom and health workers.
Hannah had a school assignment for her social studies class. The assignment was to write a paragraph about her hero.
Hannah's mother is a doctor in Denver. According to her, her mom leaves for work while she is at home and in her pajamas.
Health workers have one of the most important jobs to do, especially during this pandemic. So, Hannah decided that she will write a paragraph about her mom - one of the nation's heroes (together with other frontline workers) and hers.
From a paragraph to a song
With the help of her dad, Dan Hyatt, Hannah turned her paragraph for school into a song for all healthcare workers.
According to Dan, while everyone is taking their distance, pulling back, and staying home, his wife and other healthcare workers are out fighting the virus, making them a different kind of hero.
Hannah and her dad performed the song. Both of them were playing the guitar. Before they began, Hannah gave a short message to all the medical workers whom she thinks plays a huge role in the fight against the coronavirus. She also describes everyone at the frontlines as selfless for putting themselves in danger for the sake of everyone else.
The lyrics of the song
Hannah, in her song entitled, "Doctors are the Heroes of Today", used a lot of metaphors. She named the superheroes that we usually see on television shows and movies. Some of the lines even described each superhero's powers:
Superman flies round the world....he's called the man of steel,
Batman fights for justice...plus he's got the Bat-Mobile, (...)
Wonder Woman's got her lasso of truth, Green Lantern's got his ring,
Thor's got his hammer...he ends wars with just one swing, (...)
She mentioned in her song that although those superheroes are big and strong, right now, they seem so far away, because their powers will not seem to defeat the virus, which for Hannah has changed the world.
In the latter portion of the song, Hannah tells why doctors are the heroes of today. She said they do not have superpowers nor super gadgets, but what they have is far more superior and real at these trying times. It is their sense of duty and responsibility of putting their patients first before them. Hannah also mentioned that her mom has her own secret weapon, and it is armed with her M.D. Finally, she ended her song with, "my mom is my hero, today."
The Coronavirus in the US
As of writing, there are already more than 1.2 million cases of coronavirus in the entire United States. Almost 70,000 deaths have been recorded; although there are more than 188,000 recoveries. In a report from the Washington Post, death may reach around 3,000 a day.
The entire world continues to battle the pandemic while experts are finding the cure or the vaccine to the virus.
