Unit secretary Wildaliz Perez, takes a moment to pray for a sick grandfather in Puerto Rico, not from COVID-19, during a shift at a field hospital set up to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Cranston, R.I. Rhode Island’s infection rate has come down since then, and many of the field hospital’s 335 beds are now empty. On quiet days, the medical staff wishes they could do more.
