Nurse Michele Younkin, left, feeds her 7-month-old son, Jackson, as husband, Cody, gives him a kiss in a park on her day off in Garden Grove, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. On the fifth day after her patient died of the coronavirus, Younkin's voice breaks as she sits cross-legged on a blanket during a sunny day in the park with her husband and giggling infant son. She had watched a man die — her first COVID-19 patient to pass on her watch. She had taken off her PPE, murmur…
August 17, 2020
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August 17, 2020 12:37 p.m.
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