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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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Coronavirus Pandemic
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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