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5 nurses share their pandemic holiday plans and their hopes people take the virus seriously ‘It pains me because I think when this all dies down and we get back to Mass, there will be a lot of empty pews,’ said one nurse, who has worked at a hard-hit nursing home throughout the pandemic. Registered nurse Dania Lima, right, helps fellow nurse Adriana Volynsky put on her personal protective equipment in a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles on Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) December 24, 2020 (RNS) For months, public health experts in the U.S. have warned that the run of holidays from Thanksgiving to New Year’s could lead to a weighty spike in coronavirus cases. Nurses, heralded as heroes but often overworked and underpaid, face the deadly reality of that spike in hospitals and nursing homes all across the country all while missing their own families, worrying about their ....