Deborah Jackson was 68 when she passed away on June 28, 2024, about six months after she moved to Houston to be closer to her son Casey Fry.

HOUSTON Pathologists in the Texas Medical Center are at the forefront of trying to unlock new treatments for COVID-19 patients by studying how people die from the virus. Buja said a large part of the panic came from a lack of treatments for this virus. Buja and his colleagues are leading and effort to pool the knowledge gained from autopsies on those whove died from COVID-19. Buja says this research will hopefully guide doctors to develop comprehensive treatments faster, to help mitigate these complications. In fact, he said the first autopsy he did was on a COVID-19 victim with no known health problems.