Wales Online.. The "beautiful" and "loving" mum, from Cardiff, fell ill with coronavirus before Christmas and was taken to hospital on December 27.
The former easyJet air stewardess was previously "fit and healthy" before she quickly deteriorated.Her family say they are unsure how she caught the virus as she rarely left home during the pandemic.
They have spoken out a week after her death to urge people to stick to lockdown rules. Describing the days before Karen was admitted to hospital, Rachel, Karen's sister, said: "For the first couple of days she was at home.
She couldn't do anything basically, she was in bed, had no energy."You see it on the TV when they're on the oxygen and everything but it's different when someone is in front of.