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In the Nov. 7 election, Harris Health System will ask voters to approve a $2.5 billion bond to renovate Ben Taub and Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Hospitals. The Harris Health System is seeking voter support to issue bonds to improve the hospital's capabilities, which some experts consider crucial to its operations.
December 24, 2020, 11:16 AM)
a Health care workers at LBJ Hospital, a safety net hospital in Houston. From left are Janie Espinoza, 35; Shibu Jacob, 43; Dawn Purvis, 52; Carma Jones, 56; Gissele Diaz, 32; and Lakisha Comeaux, 48, all of whom work in the hospital’s COVID-19 unit.
This story is part of Houston Public Media’s ongoing coronavirus coverage.
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When Houston s LBJ Hospital received its first COVID-19 patient on March 15, that person was immediately transported to Unit 3A, which for the first two-and-a-half months of the year was an intermediate care unit.
That night, it became the official COVID-19 unit at the hospital.
Each day after that was part of a steep learning curve in battling a virus that at the time few people knew anything about.