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Christmas in the ICU: Decorations, lights and many tears

by Jay Reeves
| December 22, 2020 8:30 AM

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.

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