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Kevin Duffy, judge

Kevin Thomas Duffy ‑ an American lawyer and United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York – died from Covid-19 on April 1, 2020. Born on January 10, 1933, in the Bronx, Duffy received a bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1954 and a Bachelor of Laws from the Fordham University School of Law in 1958. He clerked for Judge J. Edward Lumbard at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1955–1958). Duffy served as an Assistant United States Attorney (1958–1959) and assistant chief of the Criminal Division (1959–1961) at the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York before going into private practice as an associate with t...

1Apr

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Raul Della Eslao

Raul Della Eslao, 53, a graduate of UP Integrated School, UP Diliman College of Architecture and a registered nurse, succumbed to the virus while fighting in the frontline in Michigan, USA where he worked. “I cannot stay at home, I’m a nurse” was a hashtag that went with his new profile picture in his final Facebook posting on March 19. Twelve days later Raul Della Eslao paid the ultimate price for his heroism. He died, a friend commented on Facebook, so others may live. University of the Philippines

1Apr

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Nicanor Baltazar, Nurse

Nicanor Baltazar – a Registered Nurse in Flushing, New York – passed away on 31 March, 2020, due to COVID-19. Nicanor was 60 years old. Nicanor “Nick” Baltazar, a registered nurse from Long Island Care Center in Flushing, NY, passed away from COVID-19 on March 31, 2020. He dedicated 40 years of his life to nursing, 30 of those here in America. He worked in Long Island Care Center for 15 years, and this year would have been his 5th year as the Director of Nursing. Source: New York State Nurse Association Please help us in adding details.

1Apr

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Israel, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Israel Tolentino

Israel Tolentino, 33, a firefighter and an EMT volunteer in Passaic, New Jersey, died from Covid-19 on March 31, 2020. He battled it for nearly two weeks. Israel Tolentino died from complications after contracting Covid-19, Passaic Mayor Hector Lora said in a Facebook Live, flanked by Passaic Fire Chief Patrick Trentacost. Tolentino, who joined the Passaic Fire Department in December 2018, leaves behind a wife and two children, ages 7 and 9, Lora said. Battling tears, Trentacost said that Tolentino’s death was considered a line of duty death, as he remembered the young firefighter who fulfilled his dream of joining the fire department little more than a year ago. “Israel was a great father, person, husband, son,” said Trentacost. Israel is survived by his wife and two small children...

1Apr

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Dr. James T. Goodrich, Neurosurgeon

Dr. James T. Goodrich, 73, a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon who successfully operated on conjoined twins, passed away from Covid19 on March 30, 2020. Goodrich was the world’s leading expert on separating such twins, a procedure called craniopagus surgery. He traveled the world lending his expertise to more than 100 cases of conjoined twins. Not every case he examined resulted in surgeries; some were too complex. Just 1 in 2.5 million live births results in twins born conjoined at the head. Before the mid-1980s, it was accepted medical practice to sacrifice one child on the operating table to save the life of the other. “Parents had to choose which baby would live,” he said at the time. Many times, both babies died during surgery. Goodrich thought that was unacceptable and ded...

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Kim King-Smith, EKG Technician

Kim King-Smith – an EKG Technician at University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey – passed away on 31 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Smith was 53 years old. Source: EYE WITNESS News abc Please help us in adding details.

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Julie Bennett, actress & voice artist

Julie Bennett, an American actress and voice artist, died on March 31, 2020 from coronavirus. A native of Hollywood, Bennett worked as a character actress on stage, on radio, and in several film and television programs, including The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Adventures of Superman, and Dragnet. Bennett worked as a voice actress from the 1950s until the early 2000s. She recorded voices for UPA, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Format Films' The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (for the segment Fractured Fairy Tales), and Hanna-Barbera Productions. She is best known as the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Cindy Bear on The Yogi Bear Show and its feature-film spin-off Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! She reprised the character in Yogi's Tre...

1Apr

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Larrice Anderson, Nurse

Larrice Anderson – a Nurse at New Orleans East Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana – passed away on March 31, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. She was 46 years old. Anderson worked in nursing for many years, earlier as a nurse tech at Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner before she became a registered nurse and moved on to the New Orleans East Hospital a few years ago. Please help us in adding details.

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Janine Meritet, Patient Care Assistant

Janine Meritet – a Patient Care Assistant in Smithtown, New York – passed away on 31 March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Janine was 59 years old. Janine Meritet was born in West Islip, on July 28, 1960, into a blended family, with a brother from her mother’s previous marriage, a brother and sister from her father’s previous marriage, and a sister who had both the same parents. Her mother died when she was in middle school, and she was raised by her widower father. She attended West Islip High School and became a nurse’s aide in the 1980s. Source: Newsday Please help us in adding details.

Divinia “Debbie” Accad, Registered Nurse

31Mar

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Divinia “Debbie” Accad, Registered Nurse

Divina Accad, a long-time nurse at the VA’s John D. Dingell Medical Center in Detroit, died on March 30 of complications of the coronavirus. She was 72, and had begun talking about retiring. Accad was hospitalized with pneumonia, and spent 11 days at a Taylor hospital before she died. Source: Detroit Free Press Please help us in adding details.