Janet Burkhart, 67, another of Salida’s community-minded people, died Jan. 9 at her home in Hermitage, Missouri. Although she and her husband, Bob Burkhart, were living in Missouri now, she
At 28, he was also perhaps the youngest up to then.
Brad, a Pawtucket firefighter, likely got infected as an EMT. By late March 2020, he was doing eight or more COVID runs a day, carrying patients down staircases.
Now, having caught the virus himself, Brad was in a room in Miriam Hospital’s ICU. He felt like he was trying to catch his breath after a sprint, except he couldn’t.
Brad was in an isolation room, a half dozen staff moving fast around him. Someone strapped a clear BiPAP mask around his nose and mouth to push in oxygen.
In his work, he’d often dealt with people on the worst days of their lives heart attacks, injuries, overdoses.