When the Delta wave began during the summer, the Inland Empire fared far worse in hospitalizations than its coastal neighbors, such as Los Angeles County and it never recovered.
The crowded conditions at some Inland Empire hospitals are generating concern as officials get ready for the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant.
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