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Yesterday, we took you inside California’s strained hospitals, where the flood of COVID-19 patients who are filling beds in intensive care units and spilling over into hallways is pushing doctors and nurses to the breaking point. Today, my colleague Maria L. La Ganga introduces us to a Cathedral City
CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif.
The Macias family has seven reasons to be furious that you will not wear a mask, that you went to Thanksgiving dinner for 20 without a second thought, that you dismiss the coronavirus as not much worse than the flu.
Alexandria Cantu Macias is reason No. 1. The 41-year-old spent a week in the hospital because COVID-19 stole her ability to breathe. Reason No. 2 is Alexandria’s daughter, Gabriella Alvarado, age 13, the first member of the big, close-knit Latino family to show symptoms.
Alexandria’s mother, stepfather and mother-in-law all tested positive for the coronavirus, too. They’re reasons No. 3, 4 and 5.