Daniel and Davy Macias, a married couple from California, were hospitalized with COVID-19 a few days apart last month after returning home from vacation and tragically died in recent weeks from complications of the virus, leaving behind a three-week-old baby and four other children under 7 years old.
Davy Macias, a 37-year-old nurse, was seven months pregnant when she was first hospitalized. A doctor gave birth to the couple’s daughter eight days before she died on August 26.
Daniel Macias, 39, was hospitalized a few days after his wife last month and lost the battle against the virus on September 10th.
The couple leaves behind five children aged 7, 5, 3, 2 and their newborn daughter.
“There are no words to explain the loss of both him and Davy,” Daniel’s sister-in-law Terri Serey wrote on a GoFundMe page for the kids. “Keep the kids in your thoughts and prayers. They’ve won two angels, but they still have a long way to go.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, the fundraiser had raised more than $ 241,000 and lots of supplies for the Macias children, who are cared for by their grandparents.
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“I don’t know anyone who loves their kids as much as they do, and they made sure they told them every day,” Serey told FOX 5 San Diego. “I want them to be aware of how much they love them. And I want them to know how much their parents loved them.”
Daniel Macias was a middle school teacher who “will be remembered as a compassionate, kind, fun-loving, and generous teacher at Jehue Middle School, but he was also a devoted family man,” the Unified School District said. Rialto in a statement.
Davy Macias was a nurse and Daniel Macias was a middle school teacher.
(Family photo provided via KTTV)
Davy Macias was a front-line worker throughout the pandemic.
“COVID does not discriminate and is a scary place in hospitals right now,” he wrote on Facebook in January. “Nurses are tired, we have anxiety before we go to work, we sit in our cars and cry after our long shifts. We cry for patients and families.”
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Her brother, Vong Serey, told the Orange County registry that her sister was not vaccinated because she hesitated to do so while she was pregnant and that she was not sure if Daniel Macias was vaccinated.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.