Texas Public Radio Rosa Torres writes the name of her son David Alvarado, who died from COVID-19 at the age of 53 last July.
A new memorial to the victims of COVID-19 has been set up in Downtown San Antonio.
The installation called Deep In Our Hearts contains more than 3,400 hearts on a chain fence that border two full city blocks around HemisFair at South Alamo and Market streets. One red heart for every person that has died in Bexar County, as of Thursday, that number is 3,457.
It s the first visual representation of the lives lost during the pandemic. Most of the hearts are blank but the public is invited to write the names of their loved ones, attach a picture, or write a prayer on a heart.
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It's not uncommon for Rosa Torres to don personal protective equipment when she walks into a hospital room.
She never imagined that wearing a body suit would become routine, since she's not a medical professional at St. Anthony Hospital. But it has become routine nonetheless.
Torres is among the many care providers at the medical facility who are helping battle COVID-19. She's an environmental services professional who sanitizes patient rooms and other areas of the hospital.
Often working behind the scenes, the Oklahoma City woman is perhaps one of the unsung heroes of the pandemic whose work disinfecting medical facilities became even more important in the wake of the deadly coronavirus.