Sanitation worker Thomas Fields Sr. lost his only child to coronavirus.
Thomas Fields Jr.
Thomas Fields Jr., 32, lived with his mother and worked at the Paul Robeson Malcolm X Academy in Detroit as the school's cultural facilitator. Fields tells Erin Patrick O'Connor of The Washington Post his son warned him about the virus before dying March 30.
"I miss him so much, just the interaction," Fields says. "We just had a conversation a week before he got sick. And he said: 'Dad, pay attention, make sure you got your mask and your gloves on because you know you got sarcoidosis. You got a lung disease. I don't want nothing to happen to you.'
"You know, this is my son saying this to me. Then my son get it and then die. It's just unbelievable."
The paper chronicles Fields' sad story and his travels to Detroit to bury his son. Four days after the funeral, he returned to work.
