While most people who die from COVID-19 are over 65, health care workers who die are often younger. Here are stories of some who died in their 20s, leaving shattered dreams and devastated families.
Siblings Jasmine and Josh Obra both tested positive for COVID-19 on the same day. Only one of them survived.Siblings Jasmine and Josh Obra both tested positive for COVID-19 on the same day. Only one of them survived.Jasmine Obra believed that if it wasn't for her brother Joshua, she wouldn't exist. When 7-year-old Josh realized that his parents weren't going to live forever, he asked for a sibling so he would never be alone.
Among 167 confirmed front-line worker deaths the reporters investigated, 21 medical staffers, or 13% of the total, were under 40, and eight fatalities were under 30. Thein the general population is 78, while the median age of health care worker deaths in the database is 57. This is in part because the reporters included only people of working age who were treating patients during the pandemic — but it is also because, as health workers, they are far more exposed to the virus.
Doctors in New York noticed that more younger patients than usual were presenting with strokes, to the point that"the average age of our stroke patients with large-vessel strokes" — the most devastating kind —"has come down," says Thomas Oxley, a Mount Sinai medical system neurosurgeon. COVID-19 infections cause inflammation, and often blood clots, in blood vessels as well as the lungs.Angela Padula thought that she and Dennis Bradt had done everything right.
On April 5, Bradt came down with a fever, stomach-bug symptoms and achiness, and went to the hospital. His COVID-19 test came back negative. Soon he couldn't breathe. Another test proved positive. On April 16 he was put on a ventilator. In the process, he choked on his own vomit, which caused his lung to collapse.
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