Married Couple Die of Coronavirus 4 Minutes Apart, Holding Hands for the Last Time: 'They Were a Ble
A family in North Carolina is weathering two tragedies after a husband and wife died just minutes apart from each other following a month-long battle with the novel coronavirus.
Johnny Lee Peoples, 67, and his wife Cathy Darlene Peoples, 65, died of COVID-19 on Sept. 2 at Novant Health Rowan Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, according to their joint obituary.
The couple had been struggling with coronavirus for 30 days when they were placed in a room together for a final goodbye, their surviving son Shane Peoples said.
"Everything just went south, everything just got worse," he told WBTV. “The next day [medical staff] put them in the same room, same ICU room, they put their hands together, the nurses gathered around and they passed within four minutes of each other."
"They were married 48 years, been together 50, they walked hand in hand for those 50 years," Shane said of his parents.
Both natives of North Carolina, Johnny was a sergeant in the U.S. Army and worked for the NC Department of Corrections and Cathy worked as teacher assistant at Salisbury Academy and a lab technician at LabCorp, according to an online tribute.
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Another heartbreaking story in an ocean of tears.
many more good years left...The surviving families need to sue the Trump Administration!
That would be one huge class action lawsuit!...
Indeed they should do one huge, class action!
How this is allowed to continue is WAY BEYOND me!
Just accept it as the new normal. 
Yeah, fuck that shit. Fight these assholes with your last breath.
tRump and the fuckpublicans have wrought this disaster upon us.
Fight for you very life. You need to in order to survive.
They really were not even that old. I am so sorry for them and their family. The only saving grace about this story is that they were able to leave this world together, however that must be very hard on their family and friends, to lose both of them at once.
RIP Mr. and Mrs. Peoples and my condolences to your family and loved ones.
Trump killed them. Fuck him to an eternity of pain.
That express my level of contempt for this maladminstration
