It’s every parent’s nightmare scenario right now: Who will take care of the kids if we both get sick?
Jennifer Banash and her husband thought they had done everything right. The Brooklyn couple had stopped going anywhere but the grocery store weeks ago. They started keeping their 7-year-old daughter at home before schools even closed, and canceled her birthday party. “We were those people who were so annoying, trying to do everything right,” Banash said. On March 13, anticipating a citywide lockdown, they decided to leave New York for their house in Maine.
Reyhan Harmanci and her husband, who also live in Brooklyn with their 4-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son, came down with symptoms on the same day. The couple followed guidance at the time to stay home rather than seek testing, but their symptoms were consistent with the virus. Their cases were relatively mild at first, and they were able to muddle through in their apartment, using Instacart for groceries and hiring someone on TaskRabbit to drop off Tylenol.
For Banash and Blackmore in Maine, the experience was much more harrowing. Blackmore visited the emergency room and received a positive test result within a day. He isolated himself in a room above the couple’s garage, and Banash took over parenting duties. Soon her own symptoms worsened, with Blackmore still in isolation. “It was like being hit by a train,” she said. She had H1N1 when that virus spread in 2009, but for her, COVID-19 was much worse.told them not to hug their daughter.
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