A nursing home nurse from New
Jersey is facing COVID-19 head on, as she, as well as
her entire family, is infected with the virus.
Sofia Burke says her mother
gave a senior a ride home, and her mom let her guard down for just a moment --
now, seven people in the family have tested positive.
Burke is hospitalized at
Hackensack University Medical Center.
“Right now, I feel like
everything has been swept from under my feet, literally,” says Burke. “I'm
fighting to breathe every day. Something so simple as breathing has become so
difficult."
Burke’s father died on a
ventilator Tuesday, and her mother is home on oxygen unable to breathe on her own. Her 2-year-old
child with diabetes also has the disease.
A
GoFundMe page has been set
up for funeral and medical expenses.