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An 80-year-old grandfather passed away in the Intensive Care Unit at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, U.S, after being infected with coronavirus for his 20-year-old granddaughter who had attended a party, according to the agencies.
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Daily Mail reported that the young woman attended the event with her friends, and later visited his grandparents because he had no symptoms of COVID-19. However, the girl was infected and the elderly also later contracted the new virus.
For this reason, the two grandparents and the granddaughter had to be hospitalized; but the older adult did not resist and died fighting against coronavirus.
The doctor at the hospital where she was admitted told the British media that the young woman had to be admitted and intubated; However, when he woke up ten days later his grandfather had already died.
“There are stories behind the statistics. The human cost behind COVID-19 is really the story that remains untold, “the doctor told WFAA.
More than 172 thousand deaths from COVID-19
U.S the day before reached the figure of 5.524.398 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 172,965 deaths, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
This balance is 43,911 infections more than the day before and 1,286 new deaths. Although New York It is no longer the state with the highest number of infections, it continues as the hardest hit in terms of dead in the United States with 32,865, more than in France or Spain.
In New York City alone, 23,642 people have died. New York is followed in number of deaths by neighboring New Jersey with 15,926, California (11,606), Texas (10,911) and Florida (9,932).
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