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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, murmured to herself, "this never gets easier," and sobbed as she washed her hands. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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The home front: Virus stalks nurses after they leave work
August 17, 2020 12:37 p.m.

The home front: Virus stalks nurses after they leave work

For four nurses in a Southern California hospital, the scariest place isn't the ward where they care for coronavirus patients