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COVID-19 patients get a lifeline as doctor creates program for vaccinated hospital workers to sit with them
As Dr. Ben Moor worked at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth during the past year, the isolation of COVID-19 patients weighed on him.

But after receiving his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine last month, he saw a way to bring comfort to people in quarantine and be a liaison to their families. He began stopping by patients' rooms, clad in personal protective equipment. The gesture sparked an idea: assemble a group of fully vaccinated hospital workers to spend time with COVID-19 patients, people longing for human connection.

“This dying alone business just seemed so wrong from a human point of view. But we put up with it for 10 months because we had to,” Moor said. “But all of the sudden we don’t have to.”
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