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COVID’s ‘untold story’: Texas Blacks and Latinos are dying in the prime of their lives
The deaths have sweeping implications for Texas’ economy, for its higher education system and for a rapidly unfolding mental health crisis
Since his mother, Cecilia, and his fiancee, Blanca Leon (in framed photo), died of COVID-19, Claudio Sanchez has been caring for his and Blanca s sons Jose Ortiz, 14, Daniel Sanchez, 6, Claudio s sister, Celeste, 18, and three cousins who had lived with his mother and aunt: Elijah Sanchez, 7, Izaeyah Burkley, 8, and Aaliyah Sanchez, 9.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
Claudio Sanchez is facing his first Christmas without his fiancée, Blanca Leon; his mother, Cecilia; and Blanca’s father, Jose. All three died of COVID-19.