Gonzalez said her father, who is dealing with the death of his wife of 51 years, is home from the hospital but relies on a tracheotomy to help him breathe because of COVID-19. “I think that, obviously, my mom’s perspective would be you should be very afraid of the virus,” Gonzalez said. “I’m more mobile and more able, but I still deal with a few aches and pains I didn’t have before,” he said. Hartman said he was never hospitalized but was diagnosed with a “moderate” case of COVID-19. I had chills, fever, coughs, a lot of typical things you hear that come with COVID,” he said.

SAN ANTONIO The world COVID-19 survivor Ron Wilkins will rejoin Tuesday after two months of being hospitalized and undergoing physical and occupational therapy concerns the famed jazz trombonist. Wilkins is well aware that Texas is among other states seeing COVID-19 cases climb after reopening. Although he now has the antibodies to fight COVID-19, Wilkins said its still unknown whether hell get it again. Once hes released Tuesday, Wilkins said hell continue to mask up, practice social distancing and stay indoors as much as possible. Wilkins urges others to take those and other precautions as Metro Health warns a second wave of COVID-19 is already here.