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This year, people working in hospitals have faced added pressure because of COVID-19. Here is the story of some workers at East Alabama Medical Center.

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 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...