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Separate and unequal : South L.A. s MLK hospital faces crisis on top of crisis Hayley Smith © Provided by The LA Times After removing her isolation gown, registered nurse Brandi Hill walks out of a COVID-19 patient s room in the ICU at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Under the hum of mechanical equipment and the steady chirp of a heart-rate monitor, a COVID-19 patient lies quietly in the intensive care unit of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital.
She is 65, clad in the same bright yellow gown as the other nine patients in the unit, and her eyes are closed as a mechanical ventilator pumps air into her body behind sliding glass doors.