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The COVID Crisis is Still Going on in America
Don’t let the charts fool you into a false sense of security, real people are still losing their lives.
“I tried everything. We contacted multiple news stations, multiple hospitals, trying to find an ECMO machine for him and it was too late. He ended up passing away on the 29th.” Those are the words of Deanna Gomez, a woman whose husband just died from COVID-19 in Central Florida.
Justin Gomez, her husband, leaves behind his wife and three children after a brief battle with the virus that’s claimed so many lives.
But Justin’s death was a little different than the tens of thousands of other COVID-19 deaths in Florida that happened over the summer in two different ways.
First, his death took place during the descent of the recent 4th-wave that hit us hard, as the delta variant rocked the American South, Florida included.
The fourth wave is finally starting to calm down here and the cases are dwindling back to baseline — a few thousand new cases per day and a few hundred deaths per day.
