A mom covers her daughter—an ICU nurse on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic—in a sheet to give her a hug. 'I see on social media that all these healthcare workers are feeling very isolated, and I didn’t want that to happen her.'
She took the photo from a safe distance away. Norton said she dropped the sheet in the garage after hugging her daughter and let it sit there for a few days before thoroughly washing it, and she also thoroughly washed her hands.The family has been practicing strict social distancing because of Norton and her husband's ages and preexisting medical conditions and because of Kerr's potential close proximity to patients with the virus as a nurse.
Kerr said she has been working about four 12-hour shifts per week at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati in preparation for a possible surge of COVID-19 patients.Kelsey Kerr, an ICU nurse in Ohio, poses with her mother, Cheryl Norton."Right now we're working hard to train as many people as we can to make sure we have enough staff to care for the patients we have both withand our normal patient load," she said.
Norton said it has been anxiety-provoking to watch hospitals in New York City and other cities overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients and know that may happen at Kerr's hospital too.Kerr said she and her hospital coworkers have had to learn not to hug or high-five either, and are instead encouraging each other with supportive words. She hopes people see"a little bit of sunlight" in the photo of her with her mom.
"There’s so much difficulty right now but we’re going to make it through it and we’re all going to be together in the end," she said."It’s just a matter of getting there."
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