Coronavirus Claims Eight Nuns At Wisconsin Retirement Home

Eight Sisters at Notre Dame of Elm Grove died from COVID-19 in a week despite the retirement homes best efforts. WTMJ's Shaun Gallagher reports.

(NBC News) — Eight Sisters at Wisconsin’s Notre Dame of Elm Grove died from COVID-19 in a week despite the retirement home’s best efforts.

“The Sisters, we’re being extra careful in terms of getting their meals in rooms and they can’t congregate together,” Sister Debra Sciano, Provincial Leader of the School Sisters of Notre Dame Central Pacific Province said. “More testing, being tested twice a week for the virus.

Sciano says they are heartbroken to lose these eight women. Combined, they had over half a millennium of service to the community.

All educators in their own right, their reach went far beyond the walls of the School Sisters of Notre Dame retirement home.

“Every one of our sisters is really important,” Sciano said. “Not only to us, but we feel they have touched thousands of lives we’ll never be aware of.”

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