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Michael Contreras had just laid his 8-month-old son, Ethan, down to sleep on the oncology ward of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on Christmas Eve when a jolly red stranger appeared in the room.
“I was like, ‘Oh, Santa!’” Contreras said. “I didn’t know they were going to do that due to COVID.”
Having a child in the hospital is agony for any family, but having one stuck there for Christmas can be especially hard. In a typical year, L.A. s children’s hospitals are flooded with Santa Clauses, carolers and other merry-making volunteers who brighten the season for sick kids. But the coronavirus pandemic has made those visits all but impossible, especially for vulnerable children like Ethan, who is undergoing chemotherapy while he awaits a bone-marrow transplant to treat juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia. ....

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