This is the story, writes John Avlon, of an immigrant father from The Bronx who did everything right and died in the Covid pandemic
John Avlon is a senior political analyst at CNN. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
The streets of New York are filled with ghosts these days. It is spring outside, but the sidewalks are empty and the streets feel haunted. Only sirens pierce the silence. Some of the familiar faces will come back when this pandemic passes; others will not. The numbers alone can numb us: in New York City now, there are more deaths in a single day than murders in the past year; to date we've lost more than four times the number of people the city lost in the attacks of 9/11. These numbers, of course, have names. They leave behind families who mourn them and stories that deserve to be told. One of those stories belongs to Mohammed Jafor. He was an immigrant and a father.
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