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Texas brothers lose both parents to coronavirus: ‘I didn’t get to say goodbye’
Texas brothers lost both of their parents to the novel coronavirus within two weeks of each other.Naomi Esquivel, 39, died on July 2 of COVID-19, her mother Rita Marquez-Mendoza told NBC affiliate KWQC-TV.Two weeks later, Carlos Garcia, 44, died of the same respiratory illness. He’d attended his wife of 24 years’ funeral, but succumbed to kidney failure at the hospital on July 17.The parents, who died alone in their hospital rooms, leave both of their sons, Isaiah, 14, and 11-year-old Nathan, behind.