Let us declare an early open line with a bit of cheer:

I just happened on CNN’s feature on a mother and daughter from Arkansas who went to New York to nurse coronavirus patients.  It appears to follow earlier reporting by KATV.

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National exposure for their good deed is worth a cheer.

Every night at dusk, outside Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens, a mother and a daughter spend a few quick moments in a tight but hasty embrace

 

The daughter is relieved her mother’s OK. The mother is hoping her daughter will be.

 

For Ona Onyia, 23, and Uchenna Onyia-Murphy, 49, this is the only time they can check on each other before they face the scores of coronavirus patients wheeled through the hospital doors.

The mother and daughter from Arkansas are among a wave of hundreds of out-of-state nurses who descended on New York City to work at overwhelmed hospitals.

Jimmy Kimmel also featured the Arkansas nurses.

 

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