Surviving members of the New Jersey family devastated by the coronavirus are pleading for answers as two siblings remained on life assist in a New Jersey hospital.
Bridget Fusco Betlow, the family’s fifth-born little one, instructed The Post on Thursday that she was overwhelmed by the deadly affect coronavirus is having on her family.
“I’m numb. I don’t even know what to really feel,” Bridget Fusco Betlow, 52, stated in a quick cellphone interview.
“My mom, brother and sister are all gone, and we don’t have any answers.”
Fusco Betlow, one of many 11 kids, spoke to The Post simply hours earlier than the loss of life of Vincent Fusco, the fourth member of the family to perish from the sickness.
Her sister Elizabeth Fusco, said on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that the family continues to be awaiting check outcomes for a sister who’s in grave situation.
“The docs’ don’t know if she’s constructive, and the way do they deal with somebody, if [they don’t] have check outcomes,” Elizabeth stated.
A 3rd hospitalized sibling of Elizabeth’s is in secure situation, her cousin and family lawyer Roseann Paradiso stated on CNN.
The family can also be awaiting the outcomes of checks administered on Saturday to 19 different kin, together with spouses and kids of victims, in accordance with Paradiso.
“No one ever anticipated a family of 11 kids to be decimated like this,” Paradiso stated. “We have an extended strategy to go.”
Elizabeth described the heartache her family has suffered, with 4 deaths from the virus since final Thursday.
“It’s just like the second we begin to grieve about one, the cellphone rings and there’s one other particular person gone, taken from us eternally,” she stated.
The family’s first sufferer was Rita, 55, a faith trainer on the Co-Cathedral of St. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold, who died on Thursday.
The oldest son within the Fusco family, Carmine, 55, died at a hospital in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.
Later Wednesday evening, the family’s 73-year-old matriarch, Grace Fusco, died with out realizing the virus had already claimed two her youngsters’ lives, in accordance with experiences.
