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    Bodies pile up, patient care falters as COVID devastates LA County

    by Soumya Karlamangla, Rong-Gong Lin II and Luke Money, Los Angeles Times Dec 31, 2020 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County's health care system was buckling Wednesday under the unprecedented surge of COVID-19 patients, with bodies piling up at morgues and medical professionals resorting to increasingly desperate measures as they brace for conditions to worsen in the coming weeks.

    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.

    "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."

    Hospital morgues are so full that the National Guard is being called in to help county workers as corpses are moved into storage at the L.A. County Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner. The

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