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New Jersey native Charlene Delfico, a pharmacy technician for over 30 years, still tears up when she recounts her parents’ story.
Two days after Christmas 2021, Delfico, 57, found her 76-year-old mother, Inez, collapsed on the floor, glassy-eyed and unresponsive. Her 85-year-old stepfather, Otto Moring, a vigorous man who still hunted and fished, was “dehydrated and a little bit out of it.”
Delfico called an ambulance to rush her parents to Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, with severe symptoms of COVID-19.
That Christmas week, COVID-19 deaths had reached nearly 5.4 million worldwide. The New York Times reported that “Omicron Overshadows Christmas…
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