Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 3
whow. The mom did not get to say goodby.
It just dawned on my that my very large family will most likely not gather together this Easter.
Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 3
The matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/new-jersey-family-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare
Grace Fusco, center, and her 11 children in a family photo.
By Tracey Tully
March 18, 2020
Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian-American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey.
Now, her close-knit clan is united anew by unspeakable grief: Mrs. Fusco, 73, died on Wednesday night after contracting the coronavirus — hours after her son died from the virus and five days after her daughter’s death, a relative said.
Four other children who contracted coronavirus remain hospitalized, three of them in critical condition, the relative, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, said.
Mrs. Fusco’s eldest child, Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, of Freehold, N.J., died Friday; after her death, the family learned she had contracted the virus. Her eldest son, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pa., died on Wednesday, said Ms. Paradiso Fodera, the family’s lawyer who is Mrs. Fusco’s cousin and is serving as a spokeswoman..........................
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But its just a mild flu... we're clearly overreacting...
Our condolences go out to their survivors and their friends.
This triggers some emotions in me especially, as my 73 YO wife died last fall and the bottom line result was she had a rare (and unknown to us) genetic twist from birth which caused her to have a fatal reaction to some drugs given her in the hospital for a kidney problem. She would have normally recovered from that problem had it not been for the reaction.
Now, we're trying to get all of her siblings and our kids to be tested for that genetic oddity so they are aware and forewarned for any future health problems they may have.
This makes me curious if something similar to that could have happened here. I truly hope the autopsies are very thorough and find the cause. This is a brand-new virus to science and we'll be learning much more about it as time passes.
KY.......... ........