All Coronavirus Vigils

A New York City physician known for his dedication to patient care continued working on the frontlines of the pandemic in an intensive care unit and died from COVID-19. As the coronavirus pandemic took hold in New York, Dr. James A. Mahoney, 62, worked nonstop at University Hospital of Brooklyn, an under-funded institution that serves a predominantly poor, black community, Read more...

Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn, whose collaboration with Siegfried Fischbacher created the well-known animal training and magic duo Siegfried & Roy, died of complications from COVID-19 Friday in Las Vegas. He was 75. Horn had revealed on April 28 that he had tested positive for coronavirus. “Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my Read more...

Andrea Circle Bear, 30, had been sentenced to 26 months in federal prison on a drug charge.  A war on drugs put her in a cage and the virus took her life after giving birth on a ventilator! I’m not sure that’s justice.  The state of Texas took a young life and a mother from a child born in prison Read more...

On the same day that New York City’s 911 dispatchers fielded a volume of calls not seen since the Sept. 11 attacks, Paul Cary, a paramedic, set out for the nearly 1,800-mile drive from Denver to New York City in an ambulance. Mr. Cary, a retired firefighter who worked for three decades with the Aurora Fire Department, was known for Read more...

They were together for 73 years and died 6 hours apart — both from coronavirus Wilford M. and Mary L. Kepler Wauwatosa – Wilford M. Kepler, age 94, and Mary L. (nee Wheaton) Kepler, age 92, both died six hours apart on April 18, 2020 at Froedtert Hospital of the terrible Covid 19. Wilford was born on September 24, 1925 Read more...

A special place here for Rishi Kapoor, please light a candle for him.  He shared this last plead on his Twitter: An appeal 🙏 to all brothers and sisters from all social status and faiths. Please don’€™t resort to violence,stone throwing or lynching. Doctors,Nurses,Medics, Policemen etc..are endangering their lives to save you. We have to win this Coronavirus war together. Read more...

Walter Lee Robb passed away on Monday, March 23, 2020 at the age of 91. Walt was born in Harrisburg April 25, 1928, and raised in New Bloomfield, PA. He earned his B.S. at Penn State and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at University of Illinois, both in three years – a record at UI. At age 23, he joined GE, Read more...

As the coronavirus bore down on New York, Dr. Doug Bass’ family begged him to work from home. He refused, pointing to his patients at Phoenix House, a drug and alcohol treatment center where he served as medical director. “He said he was on the front lines and they needed him,” his brother, Jonathan Bass, told The Associated Press. “Too Read more...

A Kansas City nurse with 40 years of experience died from coronavirus last week — just days before her planned retirement, according to National Nurses United (NNU). In a press release, the union says Celia Yap Banago died of COVID-19 after contracting it from a patient she was treating. Now, NNU and some of Banago’s coworkers are hoping her death raises Read more...

The head of the emergency department at a Manhattan hospital committed suicide after spending days on the front lines of the coronavirus battle, her family said Monday. “She tried to do her job, and it killed her,” Dr. Philip Breen told the New York Times of his physician daughter, Lorna Breen, who had been medical director of the NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital Read more...