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Brianna Cisneros is the youngest of four siblings. On this cool December evening, she’s sitting at a table in her backyard with her two sisters, her brother and her father. A dog barks nearby, there’s music playing from a neighbor’s house down the street. Signs of normalcy in a not so normal year. In the span of about a week back in July, Brianna’s parents and her oldest sister were all sick with COVID-19 in different hospitals in the Valley. And that same week? Her grandparents both died of the virus in a hospital in Los Angeles. They lived in Parlier but were in LA when they both got sick. “I was really close to them,” she says. “My grandma would always take me to the park, she would take care of me, take me and my brother and sometimes my sister to the bus stop.” She misses them and when the 9-year-old thinks back to that horrible week this past summer, well, it’s something she’s still trying to understand. “It’s scary for someone small to think about something big, you know, that
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