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The year 2020 brought a lot of emotional and physical hardship to families across the world as COVID-19 spread across the globe. Jordi Vilasuso and his wife Kaitlin Vilasuso explained how COVID affected their family during the first wave of the pandemic that April when Jordi, Kaitlyn, and both of their little girls, Everly and Riley (via Soap Opera Digest), contracted COVID. As vaccines did not exist yet and there was still so much unknown about the virus that the Vilasusos were frightened, but came through their illnesses okay.
In an Instagram video, the pair spoke of Kaitlin losing her sense of taste and smell, which was a telltale sign to them what was going on. They encouraged people to look for symptoms and also encouraged people to do what they could to stop the spread. Then, in August, they had more news to share that devastated the couple as they looked forward to a third child, but things did not go as planned.