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Kay Aquino said she cried every day for a month, maybe longer, sometimes multiple times a day. She and her husband Jon were facing a life or death crisis over the summer, and, even if he survived, life would likely never be the same. Jon, 37, a COVID-19 hospital ward nurse in Gloucester County, had contracted a rare case of strep meningitis during a Jersey Shore vacation. By the time the disease could be treated, his hands and feet had turned multiple colors from sepsis and his best chance for survival was to amputate them. Sepsis is a condition that occurs when the body’s response to infectio…