Carrie Wolfgang opened Novel Destination, a used book emporium in Jamestown, a few months after retiring from a nursing career in 2011. “We had a busy coupl
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Jamestown resident Carrie Wolfgang is pictured with photographs of Brian Bernhardt, her longtime partner who died of COVID-19 on April 26 at UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pa. âWe really thought that we had got past this. We really thought that we had made it,â she said.
Carrie Wolfgang assumed the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic had passed.
The numbers, released daily by the Chautauqua County Department of Health and reported by the media, had long come down from the early months of the pandemic when dozens if not hundreds of new confirmed cases were recorded.
But that didn’t mean Wolfgang and her longtime partner, Brian Bernhardt, didn’t take the threat of COVID-19 and its impact seriously for more than a year. She previously had pneumonia and thus a weakened immune system while Bernhardt who long preferred a quiet, personal lifestyle that often kept him indoors and away from people had virtually no immune system at all.