A moment of silence for the passing of Kious Kelly, a 48-year-old gay man who worked as a nurse at New York’s Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan.
He died of COVID-19. Kelly grew up in Lancing, Michigan and moved to New York to pursue a career in dance. He acquiesced instead to medicine, but led a happy life according to relatives.
He tested positive for coronavirus March 18 and died a week later. He had no prior health problems. “His death could have been prevented,” wrote Kelly’s sister,