Pope hails health care workers as heroes for Covid service (AP)

On February 20, Italy’s national day for healthcare professionals, Pope Francis said that “in sickness, we need someone who saves us, who assists us. A doctor told me, this morning, that in the time of Covid, a person was dying, and said to him, ‘Hold my hand: I am dying, and I need your hand.’ The heroic healthcare professionals showed this heroism in the time of Covid, but the heroism remains there every day.”