A small barbecue in Texas became deadly after 14 family members tested positive for the new coronavirus.
“I thought everything was going to be fine,” Tony Green, who organized the event, told the local WFAA news outlet. “We’re not even dating. We’re just spending time together. Hanging out at the house.” Grill, you know.
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Green organized the simple family gathering of six people at his Dallas home in June when state restrictions were lifted. Days after that barbecue, several family members, including Green, felt sick.
“My partner was sick. My mother and father were sick. And we are like, I hope this is not what it is,” Green told WFAA.
Fourteen members of Green’s family tested positive for COVID-19 in the past month. Green’s mother did not survive, while her father-in-law, Rafael Ceja, is currently hospitalized with COVID-19-related pneumonia and is on a ventilator, WFAA reported.
A small barbecue in Texas became deadly after 14 family members tested positive for the new coronavirus.
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“The family needs a lot of prayer and wisdom. Their doctors want to discuss options with the family. I still don’t know what that means, but when I hear that I don’t like it. God be with us,” Green wrote. in a GoFundMe that he created to raise money for Ceja’s medical bills.
Green in the interview stated that Ceja and his wife, along with their mother, traveled to Austin, where he said that the coronavirus also hit the homes of other relatives.
Green admitted to WFAA that he was skeptical of the coronavirus at first, but has since changed his tone.
“It is not real until it becomes personal,” Green told the media.
“This is not just a virus that is dangerous,” he continued. “It is extremely contagious. For 14 family members to catch him in a matter of days from each other. You don’t want your family to be in this situation. Don’t do it” I don’t want to see a loved one imagining in your head, but see it connected to life support. See his body just lying there. “
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Green said he is telling his story to help spread awareness of the dangers of the new coronavirus.
“I hope that hearing our story, and the horrible details of what we’ve been through, will make someone like me guess,” Green said.
As of Monday, Texas is among the top 10 states with total coronavirus deaths with 5,038 lives lost to the virus. In the past seven days, there have been 56,626 reported cases. The United States has more than 4,225,687 cases, according to the CDC website.
