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13397591, 1) pops; 2) Wife's aunt
Posted by lonesome_d, Wed Aug-05-20 03:13 PM
1) pops is a stroke victim with ongoing brain damage. His body tends to be pretty healthy but he had repeated aspirational pneumonia over the winter so wasn't in great lung shape going into spring, and has had ongoing congestion.
We actually took him to the ER in late May for seizures, which unsurprisingly turned out related to the brain issues, but while there he tested positive; they stuck him in the Covid wing for a week.
Miraculously, he never got sick, so they sent him home after a week; we all covered up.
Also crazy is that we do not have a vector: he hadn't left the house *at all* since early March; my mom had left fewer than a handful of times; I had been in on a daily basis but practicing distancing; and the team of 4 caregivers were all tested w/negative results repeatedly throughout the spring, as were the visiting home health nurses & therapists. So either he was a false positive (which most pros say is possible but unlikely) or we had an asymptomatic carrier with a false negative among us (also seems unlikely) .

2) Wife's Aunt Dolores was 85, suffering from dementia, and in a care facility in NJ. Tough combination of factors. She was healthy through most of April but reportedly got sick and died at the end of the month, in the space of a few days so that we didn't even hear about it until after her death. Very sad.