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Latino community disproportionately affected as San Diego reaches grim milestone of 2,000 COVID-19 deaths "His most important pre-existing condition was he was alive. And thanks to the pandemic, he's not alive," said Dotinga about his father who died due to COVID-19. Author: Alicia Summers (Reporter) Updated: 7:02 PM PST January 15, 2021 SAN DIEGO COUNTY, California — The grim local milestone of more than 2,000 deaths related to COVID-19 across San Diego County comes as a new variant is picking up steam. And unfortunately, this is hurting the Latinx community...

A Chula Vista family’s trip to Mexico to visit a dying relative took an unfortunate turn when several of them, including their 72-year-old grandfather, contracted COVID-19. Unfortunately, on Jan. 8 Hector Villaseñor, 72, passed away from complications due to the disease. “I see pictures of my dad and not even a month ago he was here, healthy, fine, not an… COVID-19 Dec 28, 2020 Randy Dotinga, of Hillcrest, is paying tribute to his father, Ralph Dotinga, who died battling COVID-19 a few days before Christmas. Randy first shared his family’s story on Twitter. “He’s...

email article My 85-year-old father loved people, and he waved hello to everyone as he tooled around a Southern California assisted-living facility in his tricked-out electric wheelchair. He couldn't resist talking to a neighbor at his doorway when the building went off pandemic lockdown a few weeks ago. They couldn't hear each other, so they pulled off their masks for a quick chat. How-are-ya, fine-thanks. What a year! Maybe that was the moment the germs slipped into his chest. Perhaps one of the caregivers brought the virus into his apartment from the outside. Or he could have been in...

SAN DIEGO —  News of the death of retired teacher Ralph Dotinga sparked some classroom memories from his past students, including Will Chandler of Chula Vista. “I have always remembered Ralph with gladness and gratitude, for his great skills as teacher, and particularly for his kindness, decency and determination to reach all of his students,” Chandler wrote in an email to Dotinga’s son, Randy Dotinga. “There must be many hundreds of people out there who will always recall him with admiration and thanks.” Dotinga died of COVID-19 on Dec. 23. He was 85 and left behind a wife, Sud...

Updated on December 28, 2020 at 10:49 am NBC Universal, Inc. Randy Dotinga, of Hillcrest, is paying tribute to his father, Ralph Dotinga, who died battling COVID-19 a few days before Christmas. Randy first shared his family’s story on Twitter. He’s one of the 330,000-plus now, an anonymous number. But he had a name. Two, actually. The world called him Ralph Dotinga, but to me he was just Dad. He passed away this week of covid-19 after fighting the virus in the hospital for more than a month. (1/x)— Randy Dotinga, Freelance Writer (@rdotinga) December 26, 2020 “He’s one of the 330,00...