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California husband-and-wife nurses contract COVID-19. She died in the hospital where she worked

By Los Angeles Times  
   October 15, 2020

When coronavirus cases began to tick up in the spring, Saludacion “Sally” Solon Fontanilla, a nurse at St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, took some time off. As a diabetic with a history of asthma, she worried she could contract the virus from a patient. But the veteran nurse couldn’t stay away long. Her professional calling was too great, and her patients needed her, so she returned to work in July.

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