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My first COVID patient died in March 2020, and I can’t stop thinking about it | Opinion

With health-care workers exhausted and anxious, a registered nurse writes about the importance of supporting a new bill to bolster the mental health of medical professionals.

An ICU nurse hugs the sister of a COVID-19 patient she had been caring for, who had just died, inside a COVID unit in Shreveport, La., Aug. 18, 2021.
An ICU nurse hugs the sister of a COVID-19 patient she had been caring for, who had just died, inside a COVID unit in Shreveport, La., Aug. 18, 2021.Read moreGerald Herbert / AP
    by Danielle Thomas, For The Inquirer
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