A text from (a very stressed) doctor at a LA County public hospital:

"it's just increasing exponentially without an end in sight

They're converting a lot of units to covid wards and are expanding the ICU teams. They're starting to shut down non essential services"

"I wouldn't be surprised if we started rationing care by early January. We're going to be New York with bodies piling up. Wouldn't be surprised if LA rings in the new year as the covid capital of the world"

"don't know how many ways to explain to people to isolate and stay home short of bringing a camera to the ICU and ED to show them the mess of what we're experiencing and interviewing people whose loved ones have died from covid and how much they regret going out and socializing"