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Their neighbors called covid-19 a hoax. Can these ICU nurses forgive them?
Peter Jamison
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Critical care nurse Emily Boucher, left, watches as the relatives of a recovering covid-19 patient visit Johnston Memorial Hospital.
ABINGDON, Va. The hospital executives at the lectern called her a hero, and the struggle that had earned Emily Boucher that distinction showed on her face: in the pallor acquired over 12-hour shifts in the intensive care unit, the rings beneath eyes that watched almost every day as covid-19 patients gasped for their final breaths.
The pandemic had hit late but hard in the Appalachian highlands the mountainous region that includes Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee and over the winter many of its victims had ended up on ventilators tended by Boucher and her fellow nurses at Johnston Memorial Hospital. ....

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