Concerns Continue As Hospitals Brace For Influx Of Coronavirus Patients

By CBSLA Staff, CBS Los Angeles

December 13, 2020 at 6:24 pm

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Some health care workers say hospital capacity is worse now than they’ve ever seen it, and their biggest fear is having to turn patients away.

“It’s not we have ever seen before,” said Dr. Mariam Torossian, a pulmonary critical care doctor at Providence Saint Joseph Hospital in Burbank. “These are certainly unprecedented times. This is the largest and most aggressive surge we’ve seen. It’s far beyond anything we’ve seen even in the beginning.”

Over at USC Medical Center, the largest coronavirus ward in Southern California, health care workers have been frantically working to try to save as many people as possible who are suffering from COVID-19 complications.

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