Yesterday morning, a parishioner from my Indiana days circulated an op-ed from Friday’s New York Times that a friend of hers, Simone Hannah-Clark, had written.[1] Simone is a nurse in an intensive care unit in New York City. She wrote about her life and work during this pandemic. The workdays are very long days; the work that she and her colleagues do is physically and emotionally draining. She cares for new arrivals. She cares for those who are starting to heal. She cares for the bodies of those who die.
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