When he had the coronavirus, Alberto Aguado spent several lonely, harrowing days in the hospital, wondering if he would come out on the other side. When he tried to breathe, he said it was as if someone had their hands around his throat. I was asking God to take me, he said.
But when he was discharged, his thoughts turned to his family. He lives with his wife and two sons, ages 6 and 8, in an Oildale home where he worried he wouldn t be able to properly quarantine while he finished his recovery. The house has one bathroom, and he worried that even taking a shower could put his family at risk. The thought of his family experiencing anything like he had just gone through was unthinkable.Â