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One house, two doctors, three generations and the long-awaited relief of a vaccine Diana Marcum © Provided by The LA Times Dr. Rene Ramirez, an emergency medicine physician, and Dr. Veronica Ramirez, a pediatrician, help their daughters Danielle, 5, left, and Samantha, 8, with school work at their home in Fresno. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
In the Before (as their children call pre-coronavirus), Rene and Veronica Ramirez sometimes joked after a hectic day that they were “livin’ the dream.”
It was a dream hard-won.
Veronica, a pediatrician, was the daughter of a single mother from Dinuba, a rural Tulare County community. Rene, an emergency room physician, was from the other end of the agricultural valley and had driven long, fog-shrouded roads to classes at Fresno State, becoming the first in his family of farm and factory workers to graduate from college.