Girl with COVID joins Long Island family for holiday dinner by wearing plastic bubble

NASSAU COUNTY, Long Island (WABC) -- A family from Nassau County became creative in an effort to safely include their entire family over the holiday weekend.

Crista LaRock of New Hyde Park recorded a video from the family's Christmas Eve dinner table.

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Despite being stricken with COVID, LaRock's sister took a seat at the head of the table, wrapped inside a clear plastic capsule.

LaRock later wrote that the family was determined to include her sister in a way that worked for all of them.

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"My sister got COVID but we still wanted to safely include her in our holiday plans," LaRock told Storyful.



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She added that everyone in the video "all live together and there were no extended family there."

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