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‘It’s Too Overwhelming for Everyone’
Los Angeles County’s healthcare system is buckling under the surge of COVID-19 patients, with bodies piling up at morgues and medical professionals resorting to increasingly desperate measures.
With hospitals overwhelmed by patients and no outlet valve available, doctors, nurses and paramedics are being forced to make wrenching choices about who gets care and at what level.
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“No one would believe this is in the United States,” said Scott Byington, a critical care nurse at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood. “Everyone is doing what they can do. It’s not that anybody is slacking. It’s just that it’s too overwhelming for everyone.”