Jacqueline Cruz, the mother of NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns, has died from complications of COVID-19
“Jackie, as she was affectionately known … was many things to many people — a wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. … She was an incredible source of strength; a fiery, caring, and extremely loving person, who touched everyone she met. Her passion was palpable and her energy will never be replaced.”
The two-time NBA All-Star said his father, Karl-Anthony Towns Sr., was treated in late March and released under mandated quarantine for COVID-19. Towns had made a $100,000 donation to the Mayo Clinic in mid-March with an aim to increase coronavirus testing.Karl-Anthony Towns is donating $100,000 to the Mayo Clinic to help with coronavirus test development. The clinic says that "Mayo expects this donation to help increase testing capacity from 200 per day to over 1,000 tests per day in the coming weeks."
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