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Covid 19 coronavirus: A dying teacher, worrying over students to his last breaths
27 Jan, 2021 08:55 PM
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Erick Ortiz with his family on his birthday. Dad was everything to them, Maria Ortiz said of the couple s three children. Photo / Brandon Thibodeaux, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Dan Levin
The death of a beloved educator in Houston, like others across the country, has deepened teachers fears and conflict over in-person instruction. Erick Ortiz lay in a hospital bed just before Thanksgiving, struggling to breathe. Unable to see his family, he texted his wife, concerned about his high school chemistry students: Have they assigned a sub for my classes?