Two years ago, this video of classmates hugging before the weekend played on the string and went completely viral. In the last check, the nice clip has accumulated about 24 million views:
The woman who posted in November 2018, Zelene Blancas, was a teacher in El Paso, where she was much loved by her school and the community at large, according to the New York Times. She died this week from complications of COVID-19 at just 35 years of age.
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Blancas tested positive for the virus on October 20 and was hospitalized a few days later, her brother explained to the Times. She ended up exhausting all her sick leave and paid leave and sought help on the internet to pay for her health care with a GoFundMe page.
“Her call was just to spread kindness,” Cristina Sanchez-Chavira told the Times. “I think education was the vehicle she found, but it was her. She personified kindness and made others feel special. And she did it inside and outside the classroom. “
Blancas, on the other hand healthy, had shown signs of recovery at the beginning and was progressing before his condition worsened. She was intubated on November 22, her brother told CNN.
According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University as of Sunday, more than 350,000 people died of COVID-19 in the United States.