New Jersey nurse Sofia Burke said it took one family member letting their guard down “for one second” for Covid-19 to infect seven of the eight people in her household.
Burke spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon through an oxygen mask Wednesday. She said she had been treating coronavirus patients throughout the pandemic, but now she and members of her family — from her 2-year-old diabetic daughter to her now-deceased 98-year-old father — are among the more than 13.9 million people who have been infected with the coronavirus in the United States.
In light of the recent surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths, health experts have cautioned that gathering for the holidays could make things much worse. And Burke is now among those urging Americans to take the virus seriously.
“We’re fighting a virus, we’re fighting a pandemic that will kill us,” she said. “We need to fight together to save our individual families.”
Her family’s infections began with an act of kindness, Burke said. Her mother gave a ride to an elderly, sick friend who said she had a cold.
It turned out to be coronavirus, Burke said.
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