BOSTON (AP) — Camille Coelho just wanted to take a stroll on the beach and look for some sea glass. Instead, the Massachusetts nurse ended up feeling the way so many have felt during the pandemic: she was stuck in the mud.

The 54-year-old was taking a walk at Boston's Constitution Beach on Thursday when she found herself sinking into the low tide's wet sand. Soon it was up to her knees and left her unable to move, according to an account she gave to The Boston Herald.

"It's a great metaphor for the year," Coelho, a nurse in South Shore Hospital's intensive care unit, told the Herald. "I can't...