//One year later: COVID-19 survivor recounts close encounter with death at start of pandemic

One year later: COVID-19 survivor recounts close encounter with death at start of pandemic

Nearly a year after a very close encounter with death, 64-year-old Jerome Posey said he is getting by.Posey was diagnosed in March of 2020 with COVID-19, and was admitted at the VA Hospital in New Orleans, staying for weeks.Posey said, “I am looking at the TV, all they are showing is cases positive, and people dead. They were not talking about folks recovering when I