New Year comes to COVID ward, with hope for end to nightmare – The Associated Press

ROME (AP) While the world said goodbye or good riddance to 2020, a year in which the pandemic brought hardship and pain to billions, some of those who have been fighting the virus on the front lines soldiered on even as the clock passed midnight.
At the Casalpalocco Covid 3 Hospital on the outskirts of Rome doctors and nurses barely seemed to register the new year as they tended to 100 patients struggling with serious to critical illness as a result of coronavirus infections.
In one intensive care…