Officials are looking for clues in the family’s medical history that would explain why the virus progressed so quickly and severely in these cases
Four members of the Fusco family have died from coronavirus, days apart. Photo: Wil Punt/Getty Images As the number of coronavirus cases in the United States continues to rise sharply, one family has been particularly devastated by the virus. Four members of a family in Freehold, New Jersey, have died of complications from COVID-19.
Roseann Paradiso Fodera, a relative and the family’s lawyer, told the Times that the family’s matriarch, Grace Fusco, died on Wednesday at the age of 73. She was the mother of 11 and grandmother of 27. Fusco’s son Carmine died a few hours earlier, and her 55-year-old daughter Rita Fusco-Jackson died on Friday. Her family didn’t learn that Fusco-Jackson had contracted the virus until after her death.
Rita was reportedly the second person in New Jersey confirmed to have died from the virus. The first was a man who had contact with a guest of a recent Fusco family party, according to state health commissioner Judith Persichilli. As of Thursday, there were 427 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New Jersey, and at least five patients with the virus have died.
Officials are still looking for clues in the family’s medical history that would explain why the virus progressed so quickly and severely in these cases. Paradiso Fodera said that 20 other relatives are quarantined at their homes. “It’s so pitiful,” she said. “They can’t even mourn the way you would.”
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