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As the ventilator keeping
her husband Felipe alive
was disconnected, María
Salinas Cruz shouted,
“Fly high, my love!” in
Spanish, loud enough to be
heard through the glass at
LAC+USC Medical Center
in Los Angeles on Jan. 28.
Felipe was admitted on
Jan. 1, his 48th birthday,
after contracting COVID-
- An AC technician,
he could not work from
home. During the winter
surge, Latino and Black
Angelenos died at two
to three times the rate of
white residents.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MERIDITH
KOHUT