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U.S. military comes to the aid of hospitals hit hard by COVID-19
As the race to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 is accelerating, 32 states have now detected variants of the coronavirus first found in the United Kingdom, Brazil and South Africa – putting even more pressure on the vaccination push, and on hospitals.
In Los Angeles, officials are worried about two confirmed cases in the city of the more contagious U.K. strain. They re worried because L.A. was one of the hardest-hit communities in the entire country even before there was talk of variants, reports CBS News lead national correspondent David Begnaud.
By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 29, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. AUSTIN, Texas – The surge of patients at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles after Thanksgiving reminded Wesley Willard of his deployment to Iraq in 2004. Willard, an intensive care unit nurse manager and a former Army infantry captain, said the hospital was running out of beds and ICU nurses were stretched thin. “My military training and experience in combat have definitely come to play here,” Willard said of his time in Iraq, where he managed security outside of the prison at Abu Ghraib.