Warren says her brother's coronavirus death 'feels like something that didn't have to happen'
Source: Washington Post
By Timothy Bella
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) could not stop thinking about whether Donald Reed Herring, the eldest of her three brothers, was cold and afraid after he was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in early April.
“I kept thinking about whether he was cold,” Warren said in an interview excerpt published in the Atlantic on Sunday. “There’s no one there to talk to him while he waits for the doctor. There’s no one there to be with him while he receives the news.”
In the interview with the Atlantic’s Edward-Isaac Dovere, Warren reflected on the final days of Herring, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia in February and was close to recovery until someone at his facility in Oklahoma tested positive for the virus.
“[T]hen he got sick, and then he died, by himself,” she said of Herring, who died of covid-19 on April 21 at the age of 86. “That’s the hard part — really hard part.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is grieving the loss of her brother. (Michael Short/Bloomberg)
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