Colorado 'last responders' exhausted after coronavirus year
By THY VO and LUCY HAGGARDMarch 6, 2021 GMT DENVER (AP) — Maria McLain Cox deals in uncertainty. The longtime hospital chaplain has been with patients through chemotherapy and new diagnoses. She comforts couples who have lost infants, the families of stroke victims and people who were rushed to the emergency room and didn’t survive. There are no words McLain Cox can say to ward off difficulty, or make it pass more quickly. But she can offer her presence. She talks to the worried and grieving through what they’re feeling, or they might sit together silently. She might offer a hug. Some...