'Grief overload': Families absorb multiple virus deaths For all the crippling pain the loss of a loved one to the coronavirus can deliver, some families are being dealt it in multiplesIt may seem hard to imagine the cruel toll of the coronavirus getting any worse than losing one of those closest to you. In a pandemic of countless sorrowful realities, it’s bringing a special kind of loss to people around the globe who are seeing their families shattered with multiple members succumbing to the disease. “It looked like everybody in our family was getting sick.”Losing multiple loved ones at once isn’t unique to today’s pandemic. “People can go into grief overload,” said Dr. Varun Choudhary, a psychiatrist who oversees behavioral health for Magellan Health, an HMO. Woods and her mother also were infected and hospitalized and she still finds herself getting winded by the way the virus affected her lungs.

Source: ABC News June 10, 2020 16:07 UTC