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  • Francisco Hernández’s voice sounds raspy, and his words halting as he pauses for frequent breaths. “I’d like ... people to ... realize ... they need ... to ... wear a mask,” he says in Spanish to a reporter from his room inside a COVID-19 unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2021. Hernández, 48, is a divorced father of two, and lives alone in Moss Landing, Calif. He works in a vegetable processing plant. He was discharged from the hospital on Jan. 21 after spending eight days with COVID-19.
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  • Nurse Jeanna Beckham tends to a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2021.
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  • A doctor and nurses intubate a patient inside the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 26, 2021.
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  • A nurse writes on a patient’s room window in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 26, 2021.
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  • Nurse Sandra Martinez speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2021. "I ask myself, why is this affecting me so much? I've seen hundreds of death in 27 years. I think because there is no break, no end in sight."
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  • Chaplain Jocelyn Banks (right) comforts R.N. Katie Kelley after they gave end-of-life care to a Covid patient in the Covid ICU at Adventist Health in Sonora, Calif. on Aug. 27, 2021. The hospital had seen 72 hospitalizations due to Covid-19 since Aug. 1, 2021, of which 11 died from complications from the virus.
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  • “I’ve never seen anything like this before. It’s been overwhelming and tough. I’ve felt alone. I definitely have PTSD from this, and people don’t get what we’ve seen. I want to let it go, but it’s hard,” says R.N. Dalila Ceja as she becomes emotional in the COVID-19 unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Feb. 23, 2021. She has worked as a nurse for 16 years.
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  • Nurse Cassie Barber (right) takes the temperature of Carmelita Martinez, a 75-year-old Salinas woman, inside a COVID-19 unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 14, 2021. Days later, Martinez was moved to Comfort Care, a form of hospice to help at the end of life. Martinez died of COVID-19 on Jan. 23, 2021.
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  • Sonny Mendez prays at his cousin Carmelita Martinez’ funeral at Pastor El Buen church in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 3, 2021.
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  • Lynn Taylor becomes emotional at his wife Carmelita Martinez’ funeral at Pastor El Buen church in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 3, 2021.
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  • Stephanie Ybarra (right) becomes emotional at her mother Carmelita Martinez’ funeral at Pastor El Buen church in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 3, 2021.
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  • Pallbearers prepare to carry Carmelita Martinez’ casket from the hearse at Pastor El Buen church in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 3, 2021.
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  • Aaron Rivera becomes emotional while speaking at his grandmother Carmelita Martinez’ funeral at Pastor El Buen church in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 3, 2021.
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  • Rochelle Ponce Ybarra comforts Roberta Martinez during the funeral for her sister Carmelita Martinez at Pastor El Buen church in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 3, 2021.
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  • Stephanie Ybarra becomes emotional as she looks at a photo of her late-mother Carmelita Martinez in San Jose, Calif. on Feb. 19, 2021. Martinez died of COVID-19 in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 23, 2021.
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  • A farmworker is given a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Monterey Mushrooms in Morgan Hill, Calif. on March 3, 2021.
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  • Farmworkers wait in line at a vaccination clinic organized by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department at Christopher Ranch in Gilroy, Calif. U.S., on March 4, 2021.
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  • A man who refused to give his name holds a sign protesting California Governor Gavin Newsom’s shutdown to slow the Coronavirus pandemic during a protest at Window on the Bay park in Monterey, Calif. on May 1, 2020. About 60 people gathered to demonstrate.
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  • Customers eat and drink at The Tuck Box restaurant in Carmel, Calif. continued to defy orders from the Monterey County Health Department to stop dine-service on May 15, 2020, a day after District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni announced criminal charges warned owner Jeffrey LeTowt about. Charges include three misdemeanor counts of violating the shelter-in-place order, each of which comes with the possibility of a $1,000 fine and/or six months imprisonment.
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  • Caution tape prevents visitors from gathering on benches outside of Old Mission San Juan Bautista in San Juan Bautista, Calif. on July 26, 2020.
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  • A sign Del Monte Avenue in Monterey, Calif. reminds drivers to wear masks on June 27, 2020.
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  • Nurse Meghan Fitzpatrick looks out from a COVID-19 patient's room at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Jan. 26, 2021.
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  • Nurse Dalila Ceja adjusts her gown before entering a patient’s room in the in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Feb. 23, 2021.
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  • A nurse tends to a patient inside the Covid unit of Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif. on Sept. 2, 2021.
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