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Are spending their holiday on the front lines. What are you hearing from them . Reporter cori, theyre at their breaking point. These doctors and nurses along with so many of these front line workers have just been going nonstop trying to meet the demand as patients just continue to flood the hospitals. So you take nurses, for example, typically theres one nurse for two patients, but right now were seeing that ratio being expanded. One nurse to three patients or even more. Youre hearing doctors describe the situation inside their hospitals as a disaster, as scenes from a movie because theres so many patients coming that doctors are candidly saying we cannot provide the same quality and level of care because we just cant get to everybody. Weve talked about how icu capacity across Southern California has been at 0 for a while now, so what does that even mean . Theyre trying to set up icu beds in areas of the hospital that arent typically for icu patients. Theyre putting up beds in parking

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