Huffington Post: Hospital Chaplains Grapple With COVID-19’s ‘Tsunami’ Of Grief

By Carol Kuruvilla from the Huffington Post:

Hospital chaplains are specialists in grief, trained to provide comfort to dying patients and families experiencing the deepest pain and loss. But the scenes inside hospitals hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic have tested their calling like perhaps no other event in our lifetimes.

HuffPost talked to six chaplains about trying to connect with people without the aid of touch or sometimes even personal presence, the trauma they’ve witnessed among their medical colleagues, and how the United States might begin to grapple with the scale of these losses.

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