Inspired by how easily her daughter navigated the classes, Jessica followed the next semester. I d already been thinking about doing nursing for a while, but I had a 2-year-old. So I had to get her old enough,” Jessica Long said.
Like others have done, Jessica had put her own aspirations on hold to raise eight children.
Throughout those years, she’d done part-time work like delivering newspapers or driving for Uber and Lyft.
After her husband lost his job, she knew she would be the one who’d need a career that could provide better benefits and pay to take care of her family.
Fort Worth fire captain dies after month-long battle with COVID-19
Fort Worth fire captain dies after month-long battle with COVID-19
A Fort Worth fire captain and 39-year veteran became the first member of the department to die from COVID-19.
FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth fire captain and 39-year veteran became the first member of the department to die from COVID-19.
He contracted the virus a month ago and died at a hospital after a battle in the ICU.
Captain Randy Robinson died on Thursday after a month-long fight with COVID-19. He spent 39 years with the Fort Worth Fire Department and spent 20 of them at Station 35 as the air crash captain.
3 more hospitals in North Texas will receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday
Parkland, UT-Southwestern, and Texas Health Harris Methodist in Fort Worth are among the hospitals that expect to receive the vaccine Tuesday. Author: Chris Sadeghi (WFAA), Jozelyn Escobedo (WFAA) Published: 7:02 AM CST December 15, 2020 Updated: 7:02 AM CST December 15, 2020
Nineteen hospitals in Texas are expected to receive shipments of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. Four hospitals, including Methodist Dallas Medical Center, received and administered the vaccine to frontline staff Monday.
Parkland, UT-Southwestern, and Texas Health Harris Methodist in Fort Worth are among the hospitals in North Texas that expect to receive the vaccine Tuesday.
Tarrant County prepares for first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines
Hospitals like Harris Methodist, Cook Children s and JPS will be among the first to receive thousands of doses Author: Lauren Zakalik Updated: 6:10 PM CST December 14, 2020
FORT WORTH, Texas By the end of this week, some Tarrant County hospitals will have received between 18,000 and 20,000 doses of Pfizer’s brand-new COVID-19 vaccine.
“Everyone s excited,” said Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley. “The end may be in sight.”
And Whitley says the doses will keep coming, saying next week the county could see significantly more.
“It could be 30,000 to 40,000 vaccines,” he said.
Like we saw in Dallas Monday, the first shots in Tarrant County will be going to hospital workers: nurses, doctors and supporting staff. In total this week, the Dallas Fort Worth Hospital Council says more than 50,000 medical staff will be vaccinated.