COVID-19 tore through reporter Brittny Mejia's family, infecting nearly 30 relatives here and in Mexico including her grandmother. It also divided her family.
” — all things pass. And the night we got to celebrate Las Posadas, a procession in Highland Park depicting the biblical story of Joseph and Mary’s search for shelter at the time of Christ’s birth. I still have the photo of her staring in wonder at a sparkler in her hand as we knocked on doors.
The next month, my mom’s brother was placed on a ventilator. On Jan. 27, I drove my cousins to the hospital to say goodbye to him, because they feared the worst. I was both Uber driver and therapist on that tense drive. “For some families, the magnitude of COVID has been utter devastation,” Ferrer said. “Unfortunately, depending on your social network, depending on your opportunities for telework, depending on how you feel and your confidence in the medical system and advice from public officials like myself, it really said a lot about how people were able to get protected and how many people were not able to be protected.
In the following weeks, my aunt, uncles and parents would all test positive. I was one of the only ones who tested negative.
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