The next morning, he was admitted to Texas Health Resources in Rockwall where he had been staying for the past week.
“You’re not just in the hospital. You’re completely isolated, quarantined and you’re out of reach and touch of conversation with everyone,” Griffis recalled.
When he was able to leave Thursday, he called the entire experience “humbling”.
“Knowing all the efforts that everybody makes on the daily basis there [hospital], it’s just incredible. I can’t give them enough credit. They face this daily knowing the dangers,” he said.
Griffis said three of his children and his wife Allison also contracted COVID-19, though it’s unclear exactly how. He noted they have taken precautions both at their home and while he travels for work.
Updated on December 16, 2020 at 7:33 pm
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Rockwall County’s Health Authority has announced her intention to resign after five months of serving, citing frustration with the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a letter to county commissioners, Dr. Jamie Metcalf-Kelly wrote the expectation of using her expertise to help protect the health and welfare of Rockwall County residents “will never be realized.”
“I understood I would be part of a Covid Team working on a coordinated plan to address this crisis in Rockwall. This has not been the case. There is no team or up to date plan and any input I offered was tolerated but not acted upon,” Dr. Kelly wrote. “Decisions are made unilaterally with a disregard for standard public health procedures and the epidemiological facts of Covid 19. We are falling woefully short of the mandate to serve and protect the residents of Rockwall County. The Health Authority position needs to be statutorily delineated with