Her father, Norman, will be 99 in March and her mother Sivia is 95. They both live under hospice care. Norman suffers from Parkinson’s and Sivia has Dementia.
“As you get to such an advanced age and especially somebody with Parkinson’s, everything is very difficult. Now and again you hear about people of advanced age that are very mobile and really amazing. Really unique humans. And while my parents are really unique humans, their age has been really difficult on them,” she told NBC 7.
Due to her parent s condition, Mann was allowed weekly visits by the senior living home where her parents live.
Rachel Smith, a physician with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, knew the prognosis was not promising when she learned her grandparents in San Diego had contracted COVID-19 last month.
“I told my grandfather when he went into the hospital that if he recovered, I’d tell everybody about it,” she said.
That was Nov. 30. Today, she’s thrilled that she made good on her promise.
They appear to have beaten the odds, and both are back home and well after recovering from a disease that has claimed almost 1.6 million lives worldwide and has been especially fatal to older people.
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Rachel Smith, a physician with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, knew the prognosis was not promising when she learned her grandparents in San Diego had contracted COVID-19 last month.
“I told my grandfather when he went into the hospital that if he recovered, I’d tell everybody about it,” she said.
That was Nov. 30. Today, she’s thrilled that she made good on her promise.
They appear to have beaten the odds, and both are back home and well after recovering from a disease that has claimed almost 1.6 million lives worldwide and has been especially fatal to older people.
these are the impacts we expect to see over the next 72 hours. we are looking right now for cape hatteras, tropical storm winds for tomorrow night, worst conditions late saturday. ocean city, maryland, same thing, late saturday to noon sunday. thing, late saturday to noon sunday. as we move up we continue to see the impact from philadelphia to new york city, tropical storm winds late saturday, the worst conditions saturday night into sunday evg moving on up to boston. they ll be about 24 hours later from boston to portland. look for tropical force winds sunday morning. the worst conditions will be sunday afternoon. extreme weather conditions, you can expect from cape hatteras, all the way up to new england, coastal flooding, major beach erosion, damaging winds, torrential rains, and we can t even rule out tornadoes as this thing comes up the coast. we ll continue to update you tomorrow morning on wake up with al on the weather channel. and the today show at 7:00 in the