Eastern State Hospital nurse dies of COVID-19

MEDICAL LAKE – Long-time nurse at Eastern State Hospital has died due to complications from contracting the disease COVID-19.

According to an obituary published in the April 19 Spokesman-Review, 64-year-old Esequiel (Zeke) Cisneros passed away April 13 after first contracting the disease and then being placed in the intensive care unit of a local hospital. Cisneros and his wife Brenda moved to Medical Lake in 2001.

“The virus quickly devastated Esequiel's body and his family is thankful that he is no longer in pain,” the family wrote in the obituary.

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