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Priya Khanna, Nephrologist
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Priya Khanna, Nephrologist

Priya Khanna – a Nephrologist at Khanna Nephrology, Glen Ridge, New Jersey – passed away on 13 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Priya was 43 years old. Dr. Priya Khanna was double board certified and was chief of residents at Union Hospital. She also worked at Clara Mass Hospital, where she died. Source: Twitter Please help us in adding details.
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Thomas Kunz, biologist
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Thomas Kunz, biologist

Thomas H. Kunz ‑ an American biologist specializing in the study of bats – died from Covid-19  on April 13, 2020. He was credited with coining the study of aeroecology; additionally, he wrote several fundamental textbooks and publications on bat ecology. Kunz grew up in Missouri. He credited his interest in biology to his fifth-grade teacher, who was passionate about silkworms. Kunz received a BA in biology in 1961 and MA in education in 1962 from the University of Central Missouri. He went on to receive another MA from Drake University in biology in 1968, and gained his PhD from the University of Kansas in systematics and ecology in 1971. Kunz taught high school in Kansas after receiving his MA in education. Kunz states that his first experience working with b...
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Danielle Hedrick DiCenso, Nurse
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Danielle Hedrick DiCenso, Nurse

Danielle Hedrick DiCenso – an ICU Nurse at Palmetto General Hospital, Hialeah, Florida – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 14, 2020. Danielle was 33 years old. Dicenso fell ill last month with a fever and cough, symptoms known to be caused by COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. “She was on a shift where she had COVID patients, and she didn’t have a mask. She was very scared of going to work,” her husband David Dicenso told WSVN.  Source: Miami Herald Please help us in adding details.
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Lydia Lopez, Laundry Services
13Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Lydia Lopez, Laundry Services

Lydia Lopez – a Laundry Services at Samaritas Senior Living, Saginaw, Michigan – passed away on 12 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Lopez was 63 years old. Lydia was a hardworking, loyal, loving friend, sister, aunt, wife and mother who was willing to do anything for anyone if they needed her. Source: Cederberg Funeral Home Please help us in adding details.
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Joel M. Reed, film director, producer and screenwriter
13Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Joel M. Reed, film director, producer and screenwriter

Joel M. Reed ‑ an American film director, producer and screenwriter ‑ died on April 12, 2020, aged 86, in a care facility in New York City after contracting COVID-19.   Reed is best known for directing the controversial Blood Sucking Freaks  (1976), a notorious horror comedy that was the subject of protests upon its initial release and has since achieved cult status.   Reed also directed the films Career Bed (1968), Sex by Advertisement (1969), The G.I. Executioner (Wit's End / Dragon Lady / Wild Dragon Lady; 1971), Blood Bath (Terror / Night and the City; 1976) and Night of the Zombies (Gamma 693 / Sister of Death / Battalion of the Living Dead; 1981).   Reed wrote and directed Blood Bath, which was produced by the Trans-Orient Entertainment...
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Bishop Bruce Edward Davis, Shift Leader
13Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Bishop Bruce Edward Davis, Shift Leader

Bishop Bruce Edward Davis – a Shift Leader at Central State Hospital Forensics, Milledgeville, Georgia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 13 April, 2020. Davis was 57 years old. “He was just one of those people who loved people, because he was a Godly man,” said Milledgeville Mayor Mary Parham-Copelan. “What you saw with Bishop Davis was the kind of man he actually was in our community — always willing to help someone out in any way that he could and to offer them encouragement.” The mayor said “I was devastatingly shocked to hear when I heard,” Parham-Copelan told The Union-Recorder during a telephone interview Monday afternoon. “I had just seen him and at Walgreens on North Columbia Street about three weeks ago and he hollowed at me.” “He was one of the m...
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Derik Braswell, Hospital Staff
13Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Derik Braswell, Hospital Staff

Derik Braswell – a Hospital Staff at Elmhurst Medical Center, New York City – passed away on 12 April 2020 due to COVID-19. Derik was 57 years old. Source: The New York Times Please help us in adding details.
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Greg Hodge, Emergency Medical Technician
13Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Greg Hodge, Emergency Medical Technician

Greg Hodge – an Emergency Medical Technician in New York City – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 13 April 2020. Greg was 59 years old. "EMT Hodge was a skilled first responder who provided outstanding emergency medical care to thousands of New Yorkers throughout his long and distinguished career of service," said Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro. A resident of Manhattan, EMT Hodge had begun his career assigned to Station 16 in Harlem. He later worked at Station 55 in the Bronx and then NYCEM. He was a beloved colleague at both FDNY and NYCEM. Source: ABC7 Please help us in adding details.
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Monica Echeverri Casarez, Surgical Technician
13Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Monica Echeverri Casarez, Surgical Technician

Monica Echeverri Casarez – a Surgical Technician in Dearborn, Michigan – passed away due to COVID-19. It was reported on April 13, 2020. Monica was 49 years old. She showed up anyway, March 22-23, "because it was the right thing to do," says her best friend, Maureen Sheahan. "She felt like she had an obligation to the people there and the mission." Source: Detroit News Please help us in adding details.
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