COVID-19's toll among young Latino men in NJ
Credit: (Stefan Jeremiah/Gothamist) March 2, 2021: Zenaida Morales holds a framed image of herself with her late husband Reinaldo Rojano at her home in Elizabeth. Reinaldo Rojano died of COVID-19 at age 44. After having a light cough for three days last spring, Miguel Mestiza Valderrabano called his partner Ana Maria Lorenzo to say that, when she got home from work, he planned to go to the hospital. He would never make it, and the mental image of his 32-year-old lifeless body on their living room floor still haunts her. “I couldn’t believe that had happened in minutes,” Lorenzo said. Sh...