Name: '我們愛你'：重症監護室的遠程告別。 ('We love you': a remote farewell in the ICU)
Uploaded: 2020-12-19T18:30:28.000Z
Duration: 2 min 11 s

On December 1st, a nurse from Roseland Community Hospital entered the isolation room of co vid 19 patient Florence Bolton with an iPad.

12月1日，羅斯蘭社區醫院的一名護士拿著iPad進入了19號病房患者弗洛倫斯-博爾頓的隔離室。

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Florence lay on her intensive care bed, covered in blankets.

弗洛倫斯躺在重症監護床上，身上蓋著毯子。

Her grandchildren watched as the nurse took off their grandmothers ventilator.

她的孫子們看著護士摘下祖母的呼吸機。

They were saying goodbye, How we love you.

他們在說再見，我們多麼愛你。

Less than 24 hours later, Florence Bolton, who was 86 was pronounced dead.

不到24小時後，86歲的弗洛倫斯-波頓被宣佈死亡。

Florence is one of the over 300,000 people to die from the coronavirus in the United States behind each death.

佛羅倫薩是美國每一次死亡背後超過30萬人死於冠狀病毒的人之一。

She was married to her husband, Raymond DeWitt, Bolton senior for over 60 years, and in 1974 they became the first African American couple to join the previously all white Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.

她與丈夫雷蒙德-德威特（Raymond DeWitt，博爾頓老人）結婚60多年，1974年，他們成為第一對加入以前全是白人的錫安福音路德會的非裔美國人夫婦。

Florence was so beloved in her local community on the south side of Chicago, her church, which closed last year, reopened just for her funeral.

弗洛倫斯在芝加哥南部的當地社區深受愛戴，她的教堂在去年關閉，重新開放只是為了她的葬禮。

At her eulogy, the former pastor, Steve Warren, wept.

在她的悼詞上，前牧師史蒂夫-沃倫哭了。

所以昨天晚上我穿的是成人裝。

哦，我不得不穿上最後的衣服了。

It came to my man that I'm doing it for the woman and the couple, who were the very first black family in this congregation.

我的男人來了，我是為了那個女人和那對夫婦，他們是這個教派的第一個黑人家庭。

Florence, who taught special education for decades all while being diagnosed, is legally blind at first tested negative for co vid.

弗洛倫斯在被診斷時，教了幾十年的特殊教育，法律上的失明，在第一次測試中，co vid為陰性。

But weeks later, with symptoms worsening, she then tested positive.

但幾周後，隨著症狀的加重，她的檢測結果隨即呈陽性。

Florence's grandson, Sammy, said his phone has been ringing off the hook since her death, but state regulations meant attendance at the viewing and funeral were sparse.

弗洛倫斯的孫子薩米說，自從她去世後，他的電話就一直響個不停，但國家規定意味著參加瞻仰和葬禮的人很少。

 The family was left on Lee to imagine people in lines out the doors as they should have been waiting to pay their respects. 

家人在李上想象著人們在門外排隊，因為他們應該是在等著拜祭。