Many more acts of support and sacrifice have taken place in health care settings behind the scenes since the pandemic’s start, from nurses and doctors making alternative living arrangements to avoid bringing COVID-19 home to the little ways in which people have supported each other in the face of so much stress and tragedy.
Gail Yeaton, 69, was one of the Benedictine residents who survived the illness.
“Twenty-four hours a day, someone was with me,” Yeaton said.
Sam Lewis turned 66 in the COVID-19 unit.
“They knew what they had to do and I thank them for that,” he said of his caretakers.