For the News-Register Photos Provided Who is that masked nurse? Intensive-care patients in Manhattan likely had no idea their care was being provided by Jenny Sams, a former Ohio Valley Medical Center BSN who lives locally but works in far-flung hospitals. Sams spent more than two months working in New York City in spring 2020, during the height of that cityâs COVID outbreak. She is one of a growing legion of workers who donât live and work in the same place. WHEELING — Now that COVID has kicked down the door separating work and home, Wheeling and West Virginia officials are hoping population growth will walk right in like it owns the place. A Nomadland on the flipside, if you will.