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As enthusiastic support for health-care workers subsides, a small gesture has big meaning
Cathy Free, The Washington Post
Jan. 28, 2021
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The women who started Hug in a Cup to give a boost to health-care workers. From left, Candace Jones, Jenna Johnson, Courtney Adams and Melanie Powell in Idaho Falls.Kaeli Stevens.
When the pandemic first hit, Sarah Holt worked nonstop, running on adrenaline and buoyed by the cheers, songs and free coffee and pizza for health-care workers at Utah s Intermountain Medical Center, where she s a registered nurse.
Several months in, she learned firsthand what it s like to battle covid-19 - she and her husband contracted the coronavirus, isolating for three weeks in the fall. Like countless other health-care workers, she went back to the grind of treating patients once she tested negative and felt better.