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Brianna Cisneros is the youngest of four siblings. On this cool December evening, she’s sitting at a table in her backyard with her two sisters, her brother and her father. A dog barks nearby, there’s music playing from a neighbor’s house down the street. Signs of normalcy in a not so normal year.
In the span of about a week back in July, Brianna’s parents and her oldest sister were all sick with COVID-19 in different hospitals in the Valley. And that same week? Her grandparents both died of the virus in a hospital in Los Angeles. They lived in Parlier but were in LA when they both got sick.