Mourning a 'supermom': U.S. health worker casualties mount in virus fight
Aya, 61, was a physician’s assistant who had treated patients with the coronavirus. Then she became a patient herself.
She was admitted to the Long Island Jewish Medical Center on March 18 after being infected and died 11 days later. Her family believes she contracted the respiratory illness at her workplace - the emergency room at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
Aya is among 51 U.S. healthcare workers identified as having died after being diagnosed with or showing symptoms of the virus. They include nurses, doctors and technicians who have died in the United States after contracting the disease, according to interviews with hospitals, union representatives and families and a Reuters review of local media reports and obituaries.
There’s no official tally of the deaths among U.S. healthcare workers, and the total could be much higher than the number counted by Reuters.
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