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The virus has claimed the lives of more than 1,000 U.S. health care workers; others could face lasting mental scars.

A transcript of the presentation will be archived for 30 days following the event. About Oral Mucositis Mucositis is the clinical term for damage done to the mucosa by anticancer therapies. It can occur in any mucosal region, but is most commonly associated with the mouth, followed by the small intestine. It is estimated, based upon review of historic published studies and reports and an interpolation of data on the incidence of mucositis, that mucositis affects approximately 500,000 people in the U.S. per year and occurs in 40% of patients receiving chemotherapy. Mucositis can be severely de...

A doctor named Juan Fitz was dying. Fitz, 67, was Jones' common law spouse, she said, and the father of her two young kids. To his co-workers, he was a revered colleague in the emergency department at Lubbock's Covenant Medical Center, where he had worked for roughly two decades. Fitz had driven himself to the hospital in the early hours of the morning four weeks before, after testing positive for COVID-19. Though his oxygen levels had dropped, he seemed optimistic. He told Jones he'd be better soon. "It's going to be five days," Fitz said. But in mid-October, his texts to her suddenly stoppe...

9 Months On The Pandemic’s Front Line Have Crushed Texas Health Care Workers’ Spirits And Killed Their Colleagues Patch 12/11/2020 When Amy Jones burst through the doors of the intensive care unit, she found a line of health care workers in the hallway, she said. Jones was sobbing. Shaking. She let out a scream. A doctor named Juan Fitz was dying. Fitz, 67, was Jones’ longtime romantic partner and the father of her two young kids. To his co-workers, he was a revered colleague in the emergency department at Lubbock’s Covenant Medical Center, where he had worked for roughly two decade...

<figcaption> Amy Jones holds a portrait of Dr. Juan Fitz at their home in Wolfforth on Dec. 1, 2020. <cite>Credit: Justin Rex for The Texas Tribune</cite> </figcaption>