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In the pandemic, there are the people who've been able to stay home -- and those who must go in to work. It's a difference that is painfully clear to Elizabeth Hernandez, of Denver. On Thanksgiving, her cousin died of COVID-19. And he was not the first in the family to get the virus. Hers is another in Colorado Matters' profiles of how the pandemic is affecting people in the state.