niman Posted March 20, 2020 Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Four members of the extended family have died within days of one other, and three others are hospitalized. Their plight, first reported by NJ.com, began with the death of Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, on Friday. She was the second person in New Jersey confirmed to have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. Fusco-Jackson's death was the beginning of a nightmare, as her brother, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pennsylvania, also tested positive for the virus and died Wednesday. Hours later, their mother, Grace Fusco, died at the age of 73. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-shatters-new-jersey-family-kills-3-4-more-hospitals-n1163696 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niman Posted March 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Coronavirus shatters New Jersey family, kills 4 with 3 more hospitalized "I went to sleep having 10 aunts and uncles! Friday I woke up and found out I only had 9. Just a few minutes ago I found out I only have 8," a relative said. Members of the Fusco family.Gabba Gunga via Facebook March 19, 2020, 10:16 AM EDT / Updated March 19, 2020, 5:03 PM EDT By Minyvonne Burke, Caroline Radnofsky and Kurt Chirbas The heavy toll of the coronavirus pandemic is hitting one large New Jersey family especially hard. Four members of the extended family have died within days of one other, and three others are hospitalized. Their plight, first reported by NJ.com, began with the death of Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, on Friday. She was the second person in New Jersey confirmed to have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. Fusco-Jackson's death was the beginning of a nightmare, as her brother, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pennsylvania, also tested positive for the virus and died Wednesday. Hours later, their mother, Grace Fusco, died at the age of 73. Vincent Fusco died Thursday at CentraState Medical Center, relative Roseann Paradiso Fodera told NJ Advance Media. His mother died the day prior at the same facility. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak Three other of Grace Fusco's children remain in the hospital. About 20 other relatives are being quarantined in their homes, The New York Times reported. “If they’re not on a respirator, they’re quarantined,”Fodera told the Times. “It is so pitiful. They can’t even mourn the way you would.” One of Fusco-Jackson's nieces, Gabby Cartagena, who goes by Gabba Gunga on Facebook, of Howell, New Jersey, registered her shock and grief in a Facebook post on Wednesday. "My mom is one of 11, last Thursday I went to sleep having 10 aunts and uncles! Friday I woke up and found out I only had 9. Just a few minutes ago I found out I only have 8," she wrote. "Please hold your love ones close and cherish every second and minute you have together." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
March 19, 2020, 10:16 AM EDT / Updated March 19, 2020, 5:03 PM EDT By Minyvonne Burke, Caroline Radnofsky and Kurt Chirbas The heavy toll of the coronavirus pandemic is hitting one large New Jersey family especially hard. Four members of the extended family have died within days of one other, and three others are hospitalized. Their plight, first reported by NJ.com, began with the death of Rita Fusco-Jackson, 55, on Friday. She was the second person in New Jersey confirmed to have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus. Fusco-Jackson's death was the beginning of a nightmare, as her brother, Carmine Fusco, of Bath, Pennsylvania, also tested positive for the virus and died Wednesday. Hours later, their mother, Grace Fusco, died at the age of 73. Vincent Fusco died Thursday at CentraState Medical Center, relative Roseann Paradiso Fodera told NJ Advance Media. His mother died the day prior at the same facility. Full coverage of the coronavirus outbreak Three other of Grace Fusco's children remain in the hospital. About 20 other relatives are being quarantined in their homes, The New York Times reported. “If they’re not on a respirator, they’re quarantined,”Fodera told the Times. “It is so pitiful. They can’t even mourn the way you would.”
niman Posted March 20, 2020 Author Report Share Posted March 20, 2020 Coronavirus Ravages 7 Members of a Single Family, Killing 4 The matriarch of the large New Jersey family died Wednesday night without ever knowing that her two oldest children had died before her. Grace Fusco, center, and her 11 children in a family photo. By Tracey Tully Published March 18, 2020Updated March 19, 2020, 5:25 p.m. ET 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. On Thursday, another child who had contracted the virus, Vincent Fusco, died, the relative, Roseann Paradiso Fodera, said. Three other children remain hospitalized, two of them in critical condition, said Ms. Paradiso Fodera, the family’s lawyer who is Mrs. Fusco’s cousin and is serving as a spokeswoman. 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, Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. Mrs. Fusco, of Freehold, died after spending Wednesday “gravely ill” and breathing with help from a ventilator, unaware that her two oldest children had died, Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. THE LATEST Read our live coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in the New York area. Nearly 20 other relatives are quarantined at their homes, awaiting test results and praying in isolation, unable to join together to mourn their deep collective loss. Friends are doing what they can from afar. Image Ms. Fusco, with her son, Carmine Fusco, who died on Wednesday after contracting coronavirus. She died hours later. “If they’re not on a respirator, they’re quarantined,” Ms. Paradiso Fodera said. “It is so pitiful,” she added. “They can’t even mourn the way you would.” As of Thursday afternoon, nine New Jersey residents had died after contracting the virus, which has infected at least 742 people statewide. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/nyregion/new-jersey-family-coronavirus.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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