Coronavirus in the USA: a woman loses her husband, two days later she also has to take her son to the hospital. He also dies.
- The United States is currently one of the countries with the highest number of coronavirus deaths *.
- In Michigan, a woman lost her husband - and three days later, her son.
- Experts suspect a high number of unreported cases among the socially disadvantaged in the USA.
Michigan (USA) - Cassandra "Sandy" Brown shared everyone on Facebook when she lost her husband Freddie in late March. The 59-year-old had died in a hospital as a result of Covid 19 disease. She wrote, "My sweetheart has gone home to God." Cassandra Brown, like her husband, was a member of a Pentecostal church in Michigan.
Her next post follows just two days later: "Pray for my son Freddie Jr., I had to take him to the hospital."
Coronavirus: Woman prays Facebook for her son all night
As Brown later told the Detroit News, the phone rang again the next night: "How fast can you be in the hospital?" Was the question at the other end - the same question that was asked a few days earlier. when her husband was dying.
Her husband had passed away when Brown reached the hospital - her son was alive. All night she sang and prayed for him over face time. But her son died a day later.
Corona virus: grief in times of crisis
"Honey gone, now Sonny" - Brown says she finds no words for her loss to the Detroit Times. Both her husband and son were sure to recover soon - and died within a few days. Her husband had a kidney transplant , her son had asthma , Brown told the Detroit Times - but he was a football player and was looking forward to nothing more than the upcoming season.
Because of the high risk of infection , Brown had to attend the funeral alone, far from the coffin bearers. In a Facebook video, she shows how friends and relatives sit in cars to attend the funeral.
Even now she doesn't get hugs - family members would put their food in the garage or hold their hands against Brown's window panes as a sign of comfort. On Facebook, you people from all over the world express appreciation for the fact that they still find faith in these times.
In the USA, experts suspect that the number of unreported cases is much higher among the deceased - because many do not know anything about previous illnesses and do not dare to go to a hospital and then die alone at home. The number of official deaths had recently dropped slightly.
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