{"id":11001,"date":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11001"},"modified":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=11001","title":{"rendered":"Janine Meritet, Patient Care Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":" <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Janine_Meritet.jpg?w=810\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-750\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <p><p>Janine Meritet &ndash; a Patient Care Assistant in Smithtown, New York &ndash; passed away on 31 March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Janine was 59 years old.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Janine Meritet was born in West Islip, on July 28, 1960, into a blended family, with a brother from her mother&rsquo;s previous marriage, a brother and sister from her father&rsquo;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&rsquo;s aide in the 1980s.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/obituaries\/janine-meritet-obituary-coronavirus-1.44208776\">Newsday<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?page_id=303\" target=\"_blank\">Please help us in adding details.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p><p><\/p>\n \n \n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janine Meritet &ndash; a Patient Care Assistant in Smithtown, New York &ndash; 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&rsquo;s previous marriage, a brother and sister from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[48,7019,15],"tags":[6601,8112,1051,114,8051,113,792,6710,8423,6709,8424,6224,7827,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/Janine_Meritet.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7043,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=7043","url_meta":{"origin":11001,"position":0},"title":"Elma Cavalida, Maternity Assistant","date":"April 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Elma Cavalida \u2013 a Maternity Assistant at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. 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