Ninety-one thousand lives snatched by an unrelenting pandemic since the first state in the US reopened on April 24.

Ninety-one thousand whose dreams were cut short, plans ended prematurely.

Each one a son or daughter. Someone's uncle. A best friend. A person who left others to grieve, cry and try to carry on.

Here are some of their stories:

Three siblings reunited in March. It was the last time they saw their father alive

Noe Martinez Domingues loved knowing how things worked.

His family moved to Dallas, Texas, from Mexico in 1990. To make ends meet, his daughter, Bethzabet Martinez Amador, says her father worked in several kitchens throughout the city, washing dishes or waiting tables. Then one day Domingues decided to do a home course in auto mechanics.

"I remember walking into our living room one morning and seeing my dad kneeling in front of an entire car motor," Amador told CNN. "He had a small hydraulic floor crane that he had used to hang the motor. Needless to say, my mom was livid at him for bringing all of his tools into the house."

Domingues sat Amador and her brothers down and explained how the motor worked -- how each part contributed to this piece of machinery and made it whole.

Later, he made the siblings a go-kart out of an old lawn mower. By the time he completed his auto course, he had become well-known as the neighborhood mechanic.

As Amador grew up, the family spread out: Domingues in Nashville, Tennessee; Amador in Alexandria, Virginia; her brothers Kevin in California, and Jack in Tijuana, Mexico.

In March 2020 they reunited as a family — the first time in 22 years the three siblings and their dad had been in the same room. It would be the last time they'd see him in person.

Amador says her dad taught them to "work hard, to be honest and to have faith that no matter how bad life seems, one must continue on."

"I miss my dad every day, and I'll miss him now until my last dying breath."

29-year-old mom leaves behind three children to raise

Samantha Diaz worried about going to work as a medical assistant during the pandemic But she went to the doctor's office each day and took on extra shifts to help her family.

The 29-year-old lived in West Palm Beach, Florida, and she did not feel comfortable with the state reopening, her mother, Anadelia Diaz, told CNN.

On June 15, she called her mother saying she had a scratchy throat — she thought it was allergies. Days later, she spiked a fever. She also learned a coworker had tested positive for coronavirus, her mother said.

A week later, Diaz was admitted to the hospital and a quick test confirmed what she already knew: She had coronavirus.

Her mother took Diaz's three children to be tested and two of them came back positive: 2-year-old Adriann and 1-year-old Anaya. Luckily, they only had a cough and a runny nose and their brother, 15-year-old Ricardo, was Covid-free.

Wearing a double mask and gloves, Diaz's mother stayed in a bedro

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