To the Editor:

Re “An I.C.U. Nurse’s Coronavirus Diary” (Sunday Review, April 5):

No single line has moved me more in your coverage of the virus than Simone Hannah-Clark’s description of the post-mortem care she and a fellow nurse provided to a Covid-19 patient they had just lost. Acknowledging that it’s “a grim affair,” they “wrap the patient’s body securely, stroking her brow and wishing her well on her next journey.”

The briskness and yet tenderness of this gesture from nurses stretched to the limit, “scared and heartbroken” themselves, but still taking such care with the lives and deaths of their patients — this will be the true measure of how well we responded to this pandemic.

Not how quickly businesses bounce back, not how long it will take for sports arenas to be filled, but how people tended to the sick and dying.

Cathy Bernard

New York

A Son’s Newfound Pride

To the Editor:

A month ago, like everyone else on earth, my son’s world changed dramatically, but he’s probably one of the few who can say it changed for the better.