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Inside overwhelmed COVID-19 wards — Los Angeles
Reporting from inside Los Angeles hospitals at the winter peak of the pandemic — including an exclusive tour of Harvard-UCLA Medical Center's COVID wards as ICUs hit capacity and hospitals weighed rationing care.
From December 2020 through January 2021, as California ICUs filled and the U.S. death toll passed 300,000, McLaughlin reported from Los Angeles hospitals — including an exclusive tour of Harvard-UCLA Medical Center’s COVID wards for TODAY — covering patients treated in hallways and parking garages and hospitals preparing for the possibility of rationing care.
Why it mattered
As U.S. deaths passed 300,000, the reporting documented patients treated in hallways and parking garages and hospitals confronting the decision of who they could care for.
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