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Associated Press OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — A Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care room where a man stricken by COVID-19 lies unconscious, a machine breathing for him. A few feet away, a plastic snowman adorns the door of another patient whose face is barely visible behind ventilator tubes. The decorations are “a way to let family members know that we’re trying, and we love these patients and we want them to feel like it’s Christmas as much as we can,” nurse Carla Fallin said, standing just outside one of the rooms at East Alabama Medical Center. While parades, shopping and Ch...

Christmas at an Alabama hospital during COVID Updated Dec 22, 2020; By Jay Reeves, Associated Press Opelika, Ala. - A Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care room where a man stricken by COVID-19 lies unconscious, a machine breathing for him, as nurse Carla Fallin peers inside. A few feet away, a plastic snowman decorates the door of another patient whose face is barely visible behind ventilator tubes. While friends and neighbors all around them indulge in Christmas parades, shopping outings and tree lightings during a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 Americans, nurses and...

Christmas in the ICU: Decorations, lights and many tears by Jay Reeves, The Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2020 11:06 am EDT Last Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 11:14 am EDT The nurse's station is decorated for Christmas in the intensive care unit at East Alabama Medical Center Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in Opelika, Ala. Doctors and nurses caring for the sickest COVID-19 patients are doing what they can to get through the holidays while neighbors and friends indulge in Christmas parades and tree lightings. (AP Photo/Julie Bennett) OPELIKA, Ala. — A Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care r...

Christmas in the ICU: Decorations, lights and tears By JAY REEVES article A pulse oximeter on a person's finger at the infectious diseases hospital. (Photo by Kirill KukhmarTASS via Getty Images) OPELIKA, Ala. - A Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care room where a man stricken by COVID-19 lies unconscious, a machine breathing for him. A few feet away, a plastic snowman adorns the door of another patient whose face is barely visible behind ventilator tubes. The decorations are "a way to let family members know that we’re trying, and we love these patients and we want them to fee...