Best of AP — Honorable Mention

ICU nurse shares his commitment to comforting dying patients

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Miami reporter Kelli Kennedy, who specializes in healthcare coverage, tells the gripping story of a Miami nurse in the Intensive Care Unit who has dedicated himself to comforting more than a dozen COVID-19 patients in their last moments. Nurse Rublas Ruiz poignantly describes the all-too-common experience of patients far from loved ones as they draw their last breath, scared and alone except for doctors and nurses.

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