Frontline healthcare workers on LI spend Christmas battling COVID-19
Frontline healthcare workers on LI spend Christmas battling COVID-19 Frontline workers on Long Island spend Christmas on the job Working on the holidays is a reality nurses and doctors expect every year, and even on Christmas during a pandemic, they are still showing up for their patients. LONG ISLAND - From the NICU nurse at NYU Langone Hospital Long Island: "It wouldn’t be Christmas if I wasn’t working," Bisma Sheikh said. To the ER nurse at Good Samaritan: "You want to be happy and do the best with a smile even though you can’t see it through the masks," said Pauline Calderon.