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.