Blancas tested positive for coronavirus October 20 and days later, she was hospitalized, her brother, Mario Blancas, told CNN. She taught her students to be kindThe bilingual teacher came to national attention two years ago when her video of students saying goodbye to each other earned more than 22 million views. Nick Adkins met Blancas on Twitter in 2018 when he saw her video of her students hugging and leaving the classroom. Adkins gave the teacher pink socks for all 32 students in her class, he said in a blog post . Blancas also helped her school move toward healing after the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart in August 2019.

Source: CNN December 31, 2020 22:18 UTC