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COVID Christmas

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COVID Christmas

Copyright Daniel Cole 2025

Updated Feb 2022

Topics Documentary, Journalism, Loss, Love, Pandemics, Photography, Photojournalism

Marseille’s La Timone Hospital, one of France’s biggest hospitals, has weathered wave after wave of COVID-19. On Christmas Eve, medical personnel decorated a fir tree in the corridor and seized a moment for a communal meal in their scrubs, trying to maintain a semblance of holiday spirit in between rounds. During the Christmas period France declared the highest daily number of covid-19 cases ever recorded due to the new Omicron variant.

COVID Christmas in French ICU: Fear, fatigue and loving care
The staff is tired, the omicron variant is bearing down and the intensive care unit beds are filling fast at a hospital in the French city of Marseille.
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