One day in March of 2020, Rosemary Bily suddenly grew so tired she could barely get out of bed. A few days later her husband, Eugene Bily, 90, started coughing and became lethargic as well. Had it not been for a family gathering a few days earlier, the children of the Bilys would not have suspected the new coronavirus. “What we heard on TV was ‘high fever, can’t breathe’ — and they had neither,” Mr. Lamanno recalled. But about a dozen guests had gathered at a restaurant in Rockville Centre, Long Island, earlier that month to celebrate a niece’s birthday, and one by one most of them fell ill with Covid, including Mr. Lamanno and his wife.

Source: New York Times August 08, 2021 09:00 UTC