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She had to cope with 2-3 patient deaths per night. She would quietly walk into their hospital rooms to turn off Fox News on their TV screens as they lay asleep in their death beds. At the beginning, she had only one mask that she would carry with her in a plastic bag when not wearing it. Later, when masks were plentiful, she would hand them out to non-wearers in public, telling them that they shouldn’t risk bringing COVID to their families, parents or grandparents. Eventually, she caught COVID too from her exposure at work and it took her 30 days to recover. Many of her coworkers just resigned rather than risk catching it.