Coronavirus updates: Hospitalizations hit record for 17th straight day; Oregon gym fined $90K for disobeying state ‘freeze’; 263K US deaths
The deadly reality of America's bitter fight against coronavirus was apparent to families that collected across the nation for Thanksgiving dinner: There have been empty seats round the table.
In Deer Park, New You are able to, Vivian Zayas replaced a seat in the table at her home together with her late mother’s master. She scrolled through photos of last Thanksgiving, when her mother, Ana Martinez, who died in April of COVID-19, was in the stove creating a pot of grain and beans.
For Jessica Franz, a nurse who works the graveyard shift at Olathe Clinic inside a Kansas suburb, an average year might have her mother-in-law lounging out a feast on her children. That did not happen this season: Elaine Franz died from the coronavirus on November. 10, each day before her 78th birthday....
