Their neighbors called covid-19 a hoax. Can these ICU nurses forgive them? Peter Jamison © Katherine Frey/The Washington Post Critical care nurse Emily Boucher, left, watches as the relatives of a recovering covid-19 patient visit Johnston Memorial Hospital.
ABINGDON, Va. The hospital executives at the lectern called her a hero, and the struggle that had earned Emily Boucher that distinction showed on her face: in the pallor acquired over 12-hour shifts in the intensive care unit, the rings beneath eyes that watched almost every day as covid-19 patients gasped for their final breaths.
The pandemic had hit late but hard in the Appalachian highlands the mountainous region that includes Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee and over the winter many of its victims had ended up on ventilators tended by Boucher and her fellow nurses at Johnston Memorial Hospital.
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Allyson Letavic, a 2017 graduate of Hempfield High School, graduated summa cum laude from the
University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Science in biology and a minor in neuroscience. In fall 2021, she will attend the masters of prosthetics and orthotics program at the University of Pittsburgh.
Grace Batchelder received a Bachelor of Science in business administration in management information systems from the
Temple University Fox School of Business on May 7, 2021. A 2017 graduate of Manheim Township High School, she was president of Templeâs chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America, Phi Beta Lambda. She won first place honors in cybersecurity and information technology systems at the recent FBLA-Phi Beta Lambda state competition.