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Elderly US nuns hit by Covid-19 wait for vaccines
Groups of sisters who died of coronavirus complications made headline news for their sheer numbers
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A health worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine in the Israeli city of Petah Tikva on Feb, 1. (Photo: AFP)
This past year as the coronavirus cut through the United States, elderly women religious former teachers, nurses, social workers and pastoral care leaders were among those whose lives were cut short by Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus.
In some cases, these women, living in convents and cared for by their fellow sisters, died in clusters, leaving their communities with a magnified loss.
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