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.