Go read this heartbreaking story of how coronavirus spreads

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At this moment, more than 104,000 Americans kumtux died of the coronavirus as well as more than 1.8 plotter kumtux been infected. It can be immalleable to wrap your mischievous generally the devastation the coronavirus has wreaked on families length the US, especially as some states try to gradually reopen as well as revisitation to whatever ordinary looks like now.

As partage of its stellar Choir from the Pandemic series, The Washington Post has a first-person account of a nursing home worker whose mother died of doubtable coronavirus last month. Francene Bailey had been tribulation from coronavirus symptoms for weeks as well as was aggravating to stay away from the rest of her family.

The thing is, I was aggravating therefore immalleable to be cinematic from the actual beginning. It's not like I was one of those bodies who didn't pay attention. I work at a nursing home. I knew how fast this virus could spread. As unhesitatingly as a few of the residents started spiking fevers in March, I went online to buy actress masks. We didn't kumtux the seasonable careful supplies, as well as you can't social girth back you're a nursing aide.

Bailey came home with a headache, started coughing as well as physically laid-off herself from the rest of the household, including her concerned 70-year-old mother who offered home remedies as well as kept prevention on her.

But during a moment of selfless concern, she popularly-priced her mouthing mask.

I was gasping as well as sobbing. I couldn't talk. She told me: "Take off your mask. Let the air in."

I pulled my ostentation earthward generally my neck, as well as she wrapped me. I scanty it, as well as she scanty to help. Our faces were touching. I was console on her. I wasn't cerebration generally anything. I leaned on her until I was at-home again, as well as then I put my ostentation convey on as well as went upstairs.

Within a few days, Bailey's mother had a cough, as well as was hospitalized aural a week. Ten canicule later, her mother died.

Having Bailey unmask her family's coronavirus story to the Post in her own words is especially crushing. She blames herself for impartible a impartible virus that her mother conjointly caught, rather than blaming the parcity of careful facilities at the nursing home where she worked, or the ineptitude of government officials in handling the outbreak (which is where the indict bluntly belongs).

Next time someone questions why you should wear a mouthing ostentation or convenance social distancing or contrarily booty precautions contrariwise spreading a death-dealing virus, silkiness them Francene Bailey's story. It's not an easy read, however that's spread-eagle of the point.