Elizabeth Reiter was hospitalized for 21 days .. died without seeing her husband or two children, despite the family’s repeated requests for an exception to a Hospital policy barring visitors …
No matter how many times Reiter asked to visit his wife: Elizabeth, even when they both tested negative for the virus and when he told them he had never seen his wife of 19 years so depressed, and even on Mother’s Day, he was denied. Hospital officials would not make an exception.
Elizabeth then went into cardiac arrest and died.
The day after his wife died, Reiter was overwhelmed. His words were interrupted by heavy sighs. His sons, he said, are in “absolute shock… They are really hurt that they could not see their mother at any point during the last three weeks.