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When a Twitter user by the name of Dr. Robert Honeyman went online Monday to express anguish over their husband falling into a coma after being hospitalized with COVID-19, legions of sympathetic voices spoke up to support them.
“I am so so sorry. We will keep you and your husband in our prayers, in my home. We will imagine a miracle; a medical success story. We will imagine his body healing,” actress Sophia Bush responded to the tweet, which by Tuesday morning had over 11,600 likes on Twitter. “And we will hope that the doctors are able to make it so. Holding space, from here.”
The news came just weeks after Honeyman sent another tweet with even grimmer COVID-related news: their sister had passed away from the deadly virus. That announcement hit the social-media platform hard, spurring over 43,000 likes and hundreds of replies offering condolences and anger over how pandemic diligence was being pushed to the wayside.