Rudy
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Let me begin by saying that my heart goes out to the Fusco family.
I post this story because so many people are ignoring the need for social distancing if we are to reverse the infection trend we are on.
I have two wonderful grand kida, but for the last 3 weeks, we have not gotten together because of the virus.
This is the story
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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: Fusco, 73, died
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.
Fusco’s eldest child, Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, of Freehold, New Jersey, died Friday;
after her death, the family learned she had contracted the virus. Fusco’s eldest
son, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pennsylvania, died Wednesday, said Paradiso Fodera,
the family’s lawyer, who is Grace Fusco’s cousin and is serving as a spokeswoman.
Fusco, of Freehold, died after spending Wednesday “gravely ill” and breathing with
help from a ventilator, unaware that her two oldest children had died, Paradiso Fodera said.
Nearly 20 other relatives are quarantined at their homes, praying in isolated
solitude, unable to mourn their deep collective loss together.
The tradition of extended family get togethers is strong in Italian families and I wonder
if it has been one of the reasons Italy has had so many coronavirus related deaths.
I post this story because so many people are ignoring the need for social distancing if we are to reverse the infection trend we are on.
I have two wonderful grand kida, but for the last 3 weeks, we have not gotten together because of the virus.
This is the story
____________
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: Fusco, 73, died
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.
Fusco’s eldest child, Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, of Freehold, New Jersey, died Friday;
after her death, the family learned she had contracted the virus. Fusco’s eldest
son, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pennsylvania, died Wednesday, said Paradiso Fodera,
the family’s lawyer, who is Grace Fusco’s cousin and is serving as a spokeswoman.
Fusco, of Freehold, died after spending Wednesday “gravely ill” and breathing with
help from a ventilator, unaware that her two oldest children had died, Paradiso Fodera said.
Nearly 20 other relatives are quarantined at their homes, praying in isolated
solitude, unable to mourn their deep collective loss together.
The tradition of extended family get togethers is strong in Italian families and I wonder
if it has been one of the reasons Italy has had so many coronavirus related deaths.