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The 39-year-old bartender and longtime YMCA counselor started to feel lightheaded and dizzy, according to his younger brother, Oscar.
The Rangel family, who lives in Downtown Long Beach, phoned a nurse to go over Gerry’s symptoms. Soon, paramedics arrived and loaded him into the ambulance to check his vitals.
Gerry’s blood pressure was low, Oscar said, but the medics didn’t take him to a hospital where beds were already overflowing to the point that patients were being triaged in tents. Instead, they told him to rest and call urgent care if he felt worse, according to Oscar.