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Stephen Gregory

One of the overlooked

STEPHEN GREGORY WAS BREATHING O.K. around 8 a.m. on April 9. A few days earlier, he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He asked a nurse for water that morning; though he’d had an up-and-down fever, Stephen, my father’s brother—my uncle—hadn’t been displaying any great respiratory distress. We thought he’d pull through.

But this disease, my family learned firsthand, ravages quickly. At some point that afternoon, his breathing stopped. Stephen Gregory—whose lanky moves propelled him to Best Dancer honors at the Park Gardens Rehabilitation and Nursing Center annual Academy Awards ceremony—was pronounced dead, after complications from COVID-19. He was 68.

COVID-19 has stolen an all-too-broad swath of humanity. We’ve lost beloved public figures and educators. Heroic health