Five children orphaned after both parents die of Covid - The Independent

Daniel Macias, 38, who worked as a maths teacher in Yucaipa, San Bernardino County, and his pregnant spouse Davy Macias, 37, a delivery nurse, are both believed to have been unvaccinated and to have contracted the disease during a summer visit to a water park in Orange County, according to Ms Macias’ brother Vong Serey.

Ms Macias died on 26 August after giving birth to a newborn daughter while on a ventilator as she battled the coronavirus.

She never got to meet her child and the infant was never named as the family had hoped Mr Macias would recover in time to be able to choose one himself.

“It’s absolutely heartbreaking,” sister-in-law Terri Serey told news channel KTLA.

Speaking to local San Luis Obispo newspaper The Tribune, Mr Serey paid tribute to his sister, who had worked at Kaiser Permanente hospital in Fontana throughout the pandemic, saying: “She’s a registered nurse, and she was also a frontline worker from the very beginning until the very end, when she was admitted for Covid.

Mr Macias was employed as an eighth grade teacher at William Jehue Middle School, as his mother had been before him, and a statement issued by his employer, the Rialto Unified School District (RUSD), said he would be “remembered as a compassionate, kind-hearted, fun-loving and generous teacher” as well as “a devoted family man”.

It is a challenging time but Mr Macias left a legacy of education excellence for countless students,” the RUSD statement reads?