Health care workers remember Natchez nurse who died from COVID-19 complications
Deaths from the virus continue to increase for third straight month in Mississippi
Coworkers remember nurse who died from COVID-19 complications By C.J. LeMaster | January 20, 2021 at 10:12 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 10:12 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - For months, doctors and nurses on the front lines of Mississippiâs coronavirus response have muddled through a myriad of outcomes and diagnoses, many of them deadly, a harsh reality that one physician compares to the horrors of wartime combat.
In this unforgiving environment, health care workers were dealt yet another blow last week: one of Merit Health Natchezâs longest-serving nurses, Sandra Powell, died of COVID-19 complications after nearly two months battling the disease from a hospital bed.
The one that could calm the storm : Staff mourns loss of Natchez ER nurse to Covid-19 Updated: 10:32 PM CST Jan 19, 2021
She worked in the ER for 25 years Share Updated: 10:32 PM CST Jan 19, 2021
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Show Transcript 16 WAPT S TROY JOHNSON LEARNED MORE ABOUT HER LEGACY, FROM THOSE WHO KNEW HER BEST. IT HITS HOME ON SO MANY LEVELS SANDRA POWELL, A BELOVED NURSE AT MERIT HEALTH NATCHEZ WAS LAID TO REST, AFTER A 3 MONTH FIGHT WITH COVID- 19. SHE SPENT 25 YEARS AS AN ER NURSE AT THAT HOSPITAL.AND FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ARE HEARTBROKEN OVER THE LOS OF SOMEONE THEY SAYS WAS A LEADER, AND A COMPASSIONATE NURSE. THEIR PARTNER.THE ONE THAT COULD CALM THE STORM, THAT WAS THE LEADER. THEY RE JUST LOST AND THEY RE LIKE I JUST DON T KNOW IF I CAN DO THIS ANYMORE. POWELL WAS ALSO A CANCER SURVIVOR.BEATING BREAST CANCER, AND LYMPHOMA. ONE OF HER COLLEAGUES LE HINSON, TELLS ME THAT S WHERE THEIR FRIENDSHIP WAS FORGED. WE WERE ACTUA