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The 1,000 deaths in Erie County attributed to Covid-19 represent a tragic milestone, yet the figure tells only part of the story. The mental and emotional toll from a year full of grieving, fear, illness, economic dislocation and forced isolation cannot be tallied on any spreadsheet.
Survivors of Covid casualties laid bare their emotions in a story in Fridayâs News. There were painful separations as visiting was sharply curtailed at hospitals and long-term care facilities.
âAll that keeps going through my head is that he died alone,â East Aurora resident Robin Steck said of her husband, William, who died of the virus in April at age 56.
Mary Posch decorated for Christmas. She knew that if her husband came home from the hospital, he would welcome the sight.
Donald Posch had been baking Christmas cookies with his wife, Mary, in early November when the two of them initially came down with cold-like symptoms. By mid-month, Posch had stopped eating and was barely drinking.
But he never got out. Instead, hours before he died in Kenmore Mercy Hospital, she was finally allowed at his bedside and told her partner of more than 30 years what she knew he needed to hear. Don, she said, if you re ready to go, I will be fine.