Medical staff check in on Mohammed Alam inside the United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 intensive care unit on Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Houston.
A nurse ties the outermost layer of PPE as she enters a negative pressure wing where patients are kept, inside the COVID-19 intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Houston.
Medical intern Gabriel Cervera, center, and medical staff work to establish a venous line into a patient, inside the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, in Houston. The venous line was set up to start hypothermia therapy, which helps the patient maintain function of their organs.
Medical intern Diego Montelongo, right, adjusts Denisse Moreno's bed after she was transported to the COVID-19 intensive care unit from the emergency room at United Memorial Medical Center on Monday, June 29, 2020, in Houston. Montelongo was going on more than 20 hours of work, and after struggling to get the patient's bed to work knelt to try to fix the problem.
Tanna Ingraham, right, is hugged by medical student Pauleth Tenorio, left, inside her room at United Memorial Medical Center, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, in Houston. Ingraham, who is a registered nurse and works at UMMC's COVID-19 intensive care unit, has contracted the virus for the second time in six months.
Juan Carlos Peña, 43, is checked on by physicians and nurses before administering an ultrasound on his lungs at United Memorial Medical Center's COVID-19 intensive care unit on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, in Houston. Peña decided to go to the hospital after spending a week with a fever, body ache, and nonstop coughing.
A nurse helps a patient walk, after they had been bed-ridden inside the COVID-19 intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020, in Houston.
Medical intern Fernando Olvera, center, stops performing chest compressions on a patient who went into cardiac arrest, inside the COVID-19 intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, in Houston. The patient died after six rounds of chest compressions, and the efforts of nurses and doctors.
Registered nurse Diana Escalante cools off in front of a small air conditioner, after checking on her patients inside the COVID-19 intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center on Friday, July 3, 2020, in Houston.
Fernando Olvera, center, and fellow medical interns sleep, after being up more than 20 hours, inside the COVID-19 intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center on Monday, June 29, 2020, in Houston.
Registered nurse Christina Mathers holds the door open for Gaylord Duval, center, who was being released from the COVID-19 intensive care unit at United Memorial Medical Center on Thursday, July 2, 2020, in Houston. Duval, 77, was first admitted in the middle of June.
Mortician Jeff Sonka, right, loads a body into the van before driving to Compean Funeral Home on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. The funeral home, which serves the Latin community predominantly, has seen its workload double since the pandemic began.
Mortician Jeff Sonka, center, and his assistant Manuel Santos, left, rearrange the deceased bodies that have been already embalmed inside the mortuary room at Compean Funeral Home on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. The funeral home, which serves the Latin community predominantly, has seen its workload double since the pandemic began.
Compean Funeral Home manager Rosa Soto, left, and assistant Dennis Baquedeno, right, move Trancito Rangel's casket out of the chapel after the conclusion of the funeral service Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. Rangel, 46, was a construction worker and died of COVID-19.
Family stand socially distant while attending the funeral of Trancito Rangel, 46, a construction worker who died of COVID-19, at Forest Lawn Cemetery on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston.
Forest Lawn Cemetery workers lower Trancito Rangel's casket during funeral services at Forest Lawn Cemetery on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. Rangel, 46, was a construction worker who died of COVID-19.
