âItâs not what it was a year agoâ: Coast ICU nurse reflects on year fighting deadly virus The life of an ICU nurse amid a deadly pandemic By Alison Spann | March 11, 2021 at 8:00 PM CST - Updated March 11 at 8:20 PM BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - One Gulf Coast nurse reflects on a challenging year she endured, as she had a front-row seat to the havoc the virus has wreaked on many lives here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. When WLOX last spoke withChristy Pierce, Singing River COVID-19 ICU nurse, it was in April of 2020, which was at the beginning of the pandemic. She told us how she and her coworkers were maintaining optimism while confronting a disease that they knew so little about. Now, she tells her story a year later.