Jean Lau Chin, Gene Chin: Couple would have celebrated 52 years of marriage in August
(WorldNews Health)

As the machines in the ICU loudly beeped, nurses pushed together the beds of Jean Lau Chin and Gene Chin. The couple extended their arms past tubing, held each other`s hands tightly, their eyes locked. Hospital staff had kept the couple at opposite ends of the ICU for safety reasons. But on April 15, they brought them together for about 20 minutes to speak to their sons via videoconferencing. That brief time as a family turned out to be their last. The couple, who would have been married for 52 years in August, died 18 days apart from COVID-19. He died on April 25 at 79, and she on May 13 at 75, at NYU Winthrop Hospital in Mineola. Dr. Rajanandini Muralidharan, who treated the Chins,...