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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING NEWS: Senator Elizabeth Warren's brother has died of coronavirus.
Reported on MSNBC.
Edited to add excerpt from Boston Globe story provided by bigtree:
Herring, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was 86.
Warren, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administrations halting response to the pandemic for months, has not previously revealed that her family was waging its own personal battle against the virus. She confirmed his death in a statement provided to the Globe and said the cause was coronavirus.
Im grateful to the nurses and other front-line staff who took care of my brother, but it is hard to know that there was no family to hold his hand or to say I love you one more time. And now theres no funeral for those of us who loved him to hold each other close, Warren said. I will miss my brother.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/23/nation/elizabeth-warrens-oldest-brother-dies-coronavirus-oklahoma/
malaise
(269,164 posts)Deepest sympathy to her entire family
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hlthe2b
(102,370 posts)But, I am very saddened to hear.
bigtree
(86,005 posts)...three weeks after testing positive.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/23/nation/elizabeth-warrens-oldest-brother-dies-coronavirus-oklahoma/
ananda
(28,876 posts)So do the other two.
I am really sorry this happened.
spooky3
(34,478 posts)SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,458 posts)bluestarone
(17,041 posts)SO sorry!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Thoughts and prayers to Elizabeth and her family.
spanone
(135,877 posts)Kali
(55,019 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)DarthDem
(5,256 posts)RIP, sir.
Alacritous Crier
(3,818 posts)Damn Trump.
Condolences for the family.
Celerity
(43,518 posts)spooky3
(34,478 posts)Botany
(70,584 posts)Donald Reed Herring, the oldest brother of Senator Elizabeth Warren, died on Tuesday night in Norman, Okla., about three weeks after testing positive for coronavirus.
Herring, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, was 86.
Warren, who has been a vocal critic of the Trump administrations halting response to the pandemic for months, has not previously revealed that her family was waging its own personal battle against the virus. She confirmed his death in a statement provided to the Globe and said the cause was coronavirus.
Im grateful to the nurses and other front-line staff who took care of my brother, but it is hard to know that there was no family to hold his hand or to say I love you one more time. And now theres no funeral for those of us who loved him to hold each other close, Warren said. I will miss my brother.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/23/nation/elizabeth-warrens-oldest-brother-dies-coronavirus-oklahoma/
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)That's really sad. I feel for her.
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,805 posts)Tess49
(1,580 posts)dozens of infected patients and staff. Grace Living Center. The first surge of COVID cases in Norman came from this facility. It is likely that he was one of their patients.
Zoonart
(11,879 posts)SO very sorry for your loss ELizabeth.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)And all of ours. Tell me how expendable elders are again, you Trump-licking assholes.
Hekate
(90,809 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,728 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,601 posts)Initech
(100,103 posts)Fuck this virus.
democrank
(11,104 posts)Rest in peace, Donald Reed Herring.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)We are all in this together, we must hold each other up in our heart. My sympathy goes out the Elizabeth Warren and her family.
Hekate
(90,809 posts)cayugafalls
(5,645 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)and the entire family. He was a true hero.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Condolences to Elizabeth and her other brothers.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)liberalla
(9,260 posts)mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)backtoblue
(11,345 posts)marble falls
(57,235 posts)I cannot begin to understand how terrible the family must feel even as I stand in solidarity with them.
crickets
(25,983 posts)who are feeling this terrible loss.
Paladin
(28,273 posts)My second thought: God bless Senator Warren and her family at this time of profound loss.
God help us all, we live in such horrible, horrible times.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)onetexan
(13,061 posts)mcar
(42,374 posts)AirmensMom
(14,648 posts)I'm so sorry for Elizabeth and her family.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)SunSeeker
(51,705 posts)South Korea got their first case on Jan. 20, same day as us. South Korea lost only 240 people to date to the virus because they had a competent, able government who took it seriously, resulting in one of the lowest death rates in the world at 4.6 per 1 million population. Trump, on the other hand, lied that it was the flu and sat on his stubby orange hands for 2 months, resulting in a U.S. death total to date of 47,681, and one of the worst death rates in the world, at 145.7 per 1 million population. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Upthevibe
(8,072 posts)R.I.P.....
wendyb-NC
(3,330 posts)her words about him passing without family to comfort him broke my heart.
BayAreaAtLast
(37 posts)Can't stand much more of this. That thing in the White House has more blood on his hands. My deepest condolences to the senator and her family. Am I allowed to say yet trump lives on? The Lewd/Rude Abides?
cp
(6,658 posts)Blue Owl
(50,505 posts)RIP Donald Reed Herring~
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)JudyM
(29,277 posts)dlk
(11,578 posts)...along with the countless tens of thousands of Americans, and those around the world enduring loss in such a painful manner. This epic tragedy could have been minimized if sane leaders, who actually live in reality and believe in science, were leading our government, instead of the delusional zealots were currently saddled with. Thank you GOP, for exacerbating this horrific trauma that will change the world forever.
R B Garr
(16,979 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)tRump is a murderer period. He is conducting his own massacre on us.