MIAMI – David Moore is recovering at home Monday after spending about three weeks fighting for his life at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. The coronavirus pandemic struck his family with a vengeance.
Moore said he, his wife, Carolyn Moore and his 101-year-old mother-in-law Leona Moten-Scott were diagnosed with COVID-19, the contagious respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus.
Carolyn Moore said she was asymptomatic. Moore said she saved his life when she decided to call 911. Paramedics rushed her husband and her mother in law to the hospital on April 1. The centenarian died April 5.
Davis and her two brothers, Edward and James Moten, held a memorial at the Wright and Young Funeral Home on April 10 and a small graveside service April 11.
David Moore couldn’t be there. He was released from the hospital on Wednesday. He and his wife remain isolated because they haven’t been retested.
David Moore said he is grateful for the doctors and nurses at Jackson Memorial Hospital. He is grieving. Instead of celebrating Moten-Scott’s 102nd birthday on Aug. 2nd, he said they will be honoring her memory.