Filipino couple in New Jersey die at frontlines against COVID19 | via nytimes
Both Alfredo and Susana Pabatao, who were married for 44 years, worked on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus — he as a transport aide at a hospital in North Bergen, New Jersey, she as an assistant nurse at a nearby nursing home.
Sheryl Pabatao, one of their daughters, said her mother would probably have died the day she learned of her husband’s fate had she not been put on a breathing tube. Well before she took ill her mother had signed a health directive saying that in the event of an emergency she did not want to be resuscitated, her daughter said, but it was on file at a different hospital. But Susana Pabatao resisted, trying so often to remove the tube that she had to be sedated.
Dr. Dilip Jeste, a geriatric psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego, said in an interview that long-term partners dying within a short time of each other is a long-observed phenomenon but one that remains poorly understood. After the illness struck in late March and her father died, Pabatao said, she and her siblings came to understand how much her mother wanted to be with her father.
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