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Public school teacher Rabeena Khan was so sick with the coronavirus, she couldn’t even “get out of bed” — but even as she battled the vicious bug, she never missed one day of work.
“For any kid, whether they are your neurotypical kid or a student with disabilities, they thrive on structure, they thrive on consistency,” Khan, a seventh grade English Language Arts teacher at the Queens School of Inquiry in Flushing, told The Post. 
As many of her students dealt with the horrors of the virus, seeing their family members die or get sick while living within the pandemic’s Big Apple epicenter, Khan knew “it was definitely not a time to take any days off.”
“I think school is what’s keeping a lot of students anchored and centered during this time because they know ‘alright everything in my crazy world is going on, but I still have to be online at 8 a.m.,’” said Khan, 27, who also teaches health and wellness and literacy and is a coordinator for PS 24’s after school program.  
At the end of March, Khan was suddenly overcome with intense “exhaustion” that she thought was related to the stress of having to change over to remote learning with little preparation. 

Then some respiratory issues came, but again, “maybe it’s just allergies,” she thought. 
“I didn’t think that I would get sick,” Khan said. 
“But once I started feeling it, it was the flu times 10,” the teacher explained. 
“It honestly felt like someone had like just knocked the wind out of me. And there were definitely some days where I started having trouble breathing and that’s when I was worried.” 
Khan lives at home with her sister and parents and suddenly, everyone but her sibling had symptoms. 
Her mom, who has high blood pressure and is diabetic, was at particular risk. 

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