8 School Sisters of Notre Dame lost to COVID-19 in a week
By Sam Kraemer and AP
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8 School Sisters of Notre Dame lost to COVID-19 in a week
Eight sisters at the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Elm Grove have died of COVID-19 since December 9.
ELM GROVE, Wis. - Eight nuns living at a retirement home for sisters in suburban Milwaukee died of COVID-19 complications in the last week including four who passed away on the same day a grim reminder of how quickly the virus can spread in congregate living situations, even when precautions are taken.
Notre Dame of Elm Grove had been free of the virus for the last nine months, but the congregation that runs the home found out on Thanksgiving Day that one of the roughly 100 sisters who live there had tested positive. Despite social distancing and other mitigation efforts that were already in place, several more positive tests followed, said Sister Debra Marie Sciano, the provincial leader for School Sisters of Notre Dame Cen
8 nuns die of COVID-19 at Wisconsin convent
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As the coronavirus continues its surge across the United States and Europe, where vaccinations recently began, total infections around the world have now topped 75 million.
In the United States, more than 128,000 people had been vaccinated as of Friday, according to a New York Times database tracking vaccinations. But that total is just slightly more than half the number of new cases reported across the country the same day.
The United States, the world’s largest coronavirus hot spot with more than 17.6 million people who have been infected over all, on Friday reported its first single-day caseload of more than 250,000 new infections.
Debra Sciano, provincial leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific, told For me, these are wisdom figures women I have known for all of my 40 plus years in the community, she said. Every one of our sisters is really important, not only to us but feel they have touched a lot of lives we ll never be aware of.
The convent said there were other cases among the 88 nuns who are living in the facility, which is located about 10 miles from Milwaukee. All CDC guidelines are being followed regarding the care of sisters affected by COVID-19 and to avoid spread of the virus, including wearing masks, social distancing, and handwashing, the statement said.
CNA Staff, Dec 19, 2020 / 04:01 am (CNA).- Eight elderly religious sisters died of COVID-19 complications in one week at a retirement home for the School Sisters of Notre Dame near Milwaukee.
“Even though they’re older and most of the sisters that did go to God are in their late 80s, 90s … we didn’t expect them to go so, so quickly,” Sister Debra Marie Sciano, the provincial leader for School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province, told the Associated Press. “So it was just very difficult for us.”
“We believe that each of these sisters, and and all the sisters, really, they’ve made a difference in this world,” Sciano said. “I just think it’s important that people know that, and that they were committed up until the end of their lives.”
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