Until Dec. 20, there wasn t a single nun at the Adrian Dominican Sisters who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
But over the past month, a COVID-19 outbreak that has ripped through the Catholic center in Adrian, Michigan, has infected 107 people, with 47 sisters testing positive, about 1 out of every 5 sisters at the center.
Nine of the religious sisters died of COVID-19 over just the past two weeks, officials said Friday. In addition to the 47 sisters, 60 co-workers at the center have tested positive. The impact of so many sisters dying of COVID in such a short period of time is numbing for us, especially since we kept the virus at bay for over nine months with no Sister testing positive until Dec. 20, Sister Patricia Siemen, the head of the Dominican Sisters, told the Free Press on Friday.
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Show Transcript we lost nine of our sisters, Um, or God welcomed nine of our sisters, But it was all within, you know, a two week period. So, um, we re grieving. That s the heartache of this virus. No matter. We ve had very stringent protocols that are co workers and ourselves have followed over these months. Experiencing the deaths of covert have really, um, united us even more deeply with the loss in the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of people who have died from covert and all of the families who have suffered such loss. But it is of great consolation to know that our women not only are in God s arms what we say, they re having a party together themselves. I mean, there they re waiting, though
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9 retired nuns in Michigan die of COVID-19 in January
Nine Roman Catholic nuns in southern Michigan have died in January due to a COVID-19 outbreak at their retirement home
By ED WHITE Associated Press
January 28, 2021, 11:18 PM
• 3 min read
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DETROIT Nine Roman Catholic nuns in southern Michigan have died in January due to a COVID-19 outbreak at their retirement home, which had gone for months without a single case, officials said Thursday.