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Asked&Answered: Elijah Merritt

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11/12/2020 Added
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UNL student Elijah Merritt's mother and other family members contracted COVID-19 this year. Merritt talks about how he coped with the news.

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  • [00:00:00.640](bright upbeat music)
  • [00:00:03.890]My mother is a police officer.
  • [00:00:05.710]So she was working there in the Omaha riots
  • [00:00:08.130]and we believe that's where she had contracted COVID
  • [00:00:10.940]and then she had brought it home to my family.
  • [00:00:13.300]So pretty much my whole family,
  • [00:00:14.650]especially my grandpa who was an older, he was like 75-ish,
  • [00:00:19.390]so having that COVID
  • [00:00:20.530]and seeing it like affect the people that I love
  • [00:00:22.640]closest to me was probably one of the biggest things.
  • [00:00:25.040]And then as well as coming to campus,
  • [00:00:26.810]knowing that I could possibly expose myself.
  • [00:00:29.270]So I'm not able to go home as much
  • [00:00:30.900]and see my family is definitely one of the harder things
  • [00:00:33.770]that I have to go through, especially during this time.
  • [00:00:36.608](bright upbeat music)
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