9 Months On The Pandemic’s Front Line Have Crushed Texas Health Care Workers’ Spirits And Killed Their Colleagues
Patch
12/11/2020
When Amy Jones burst through the doors of the intensive care unit, she found a line of health care workers in the hallway, she said. Jones was sobbing. Shaking. She let out a scream.
A doctor named Juan Fitz was dying.
Fitz, 67, was Jones’ longtime romantic partner and the father of her two young kids. To his co-workers, he was a revered colleague in the emergency department at Lubbock’s Covenant Medical Center, where he had worked for roughly two decades.