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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2021, file photo, Chaplain Kristin Michealsen holds the hand of a deceased COVID-19 patient while talking on the phone with the patient s family member at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. I have never seen this much of death and suffering, said Michealsen, who has been a chaplain for 13 years. I often tell families that I m holding their loved one s hand when they can t and that I am with them when they are dying when they can t be. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
For weeks after Cindy Pollock began planting tiny flags across her yard one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans killed by COVID-19 the toll was mostly a number. Until two women she had never met rang her doorbell in tears, seeking a place to mourn the husband and father they had just lost.
For weeks after Cindy Pollock began planting tiny flags across her yard one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans killed by COVID-19 the toll was mostly
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