In April she tested positive for COVID-19.
“I wish people would take it more seriously,” said Joseph Slater.
Vanessa Trotman, of the Penrose neighborhood in St. Louis, lost both her mother and her mother-in-law over just two days in April.
Her mother, Carol Ann Todd, 69, who was black, had traveled the world singing with choirs.
Her grandkids called her “Granny,” and her great-grandchildren called her “G.G.”
But Todd, who lived with Trotman, had cancer, had recently undergone chemotherapy, and went to the hospital for an appointment, even as hospitals were beginning to send patients away to guard against the spread of the new coronavirus.
