A 48-year-old nursing manager from New York City has tragically passed away a week after testing positive for COVID-19.
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a number of hospitals in NYC are facing a lack of personal protective equipment and resorting to extreme measures to protect their staff from the killer bug.
48-year-old Kious Kelly was an assistant nursing manager who worked at Mount Sinai West, a Manhattan hospital that is experiencing an influx of coronavirus patients.
“We are deeply saddened by the passing of a beloved member of our nursing staff … The safety of our staff and patients has never been of greater importance and we are taking every precaution possible to protect everyone,” the clinic’s officials expressed in a statement to DailyMail.com.
“But this growing crisis is not abating and has already devastated hundreds of families in New York and turned our frontline professionals into true American heroes. Today, we lost another hero – a compassionate colleague, friend and selfless caregiver.”
As the New York Post elaborated, Kelly has passed away one week after he tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Following his diagnosis, several other hospital workers also tested positive for the killer bug.
After the 48-year-old’s tragic death, internet users have paid a tribute to the nursing manager who died while saving lives.
One of the people paying a tribute to Kelly was also his sister, Marya Patrice Sherron, who took to Facebook to write:
“You were the best big brother a sister could ask for. You loved your nephews well. You have always been my role model. There is so much I want the world to know about you (…) I have indescribable pain. So alone without you. You made the world better.”
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