On Christmas Day in the intensive care unit in Fullerton, there were no carols — just a chorus of beeps that nurses knew signaled a low heart rate or oxygen levels dropping. As of Christmas morning, there were 190. That day, in 4 North ICU, a family said goodbye to a loved one taken off the ventilator. Down the hall, in Room 3, Angelica Rojas told her husband over and over that she loved him. "Merry Christmas, I love you guys," a registered nurse told his mom over video chat.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 27, 2020 18:56 UTC