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This Utah respiratory therapist died of COVID-19 in the hospital where he helped save newborns for decades

The colleagues of Rufino Rodriguez, 65, showed him love in his last moments.

(Photo courtesy of the Rodriguez family) Mariano Rufino Rodriguez, who worked as a respiratory therapist at Utah Valley Hospital's newborn intensive care unit for decades, died at that hospital Saturday, Jan. 23, 2020, from complications of COVID-19. He was 65.

(Photo courtesy of the Rodriguez family) Mariano Rufino Rodriguez, who worked as a respiratory therapist at Utah Valley Hospital's newborn intensive care unit for decades, died at that hospital Saturday, Jan. 23, 2020, from complications of COVID-19. He was 65.

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