Our reporter @sherifink and the photographer @IsadoraKosofsky spent over a week inside Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles, one of the hardest-hit hospitals in the worst-hit part of California, which is leading the U.S. in Covid cases. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/covid-los-angeles.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Dying of Covid in a ‘Separate and Unequal’ L.A. Hospital

Inside an overwhelmed facility in the worst-hit part of California, where the patriarchs of two immigrant families were taken when they fell sick.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/us/covid-los-angeles.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Eight out of ten of the patients who died at the hospital were Hispanic, a group with the highest Covid-19 death rates in Los Angeles County, followed by Black residents. The most impoverished residents are dying of the disease at four times the rate of the wealthiest.
An ICU nurse at the hospital said many patients had a “distrust of the health care system” and came in only when desperately ill. “Everybody’s dying here,” she said.

Read the full story on the overwhelmed hospital: https://nyti.ms/3tBose1 
An ICU nurse at the hospital said many patients had a “distrust of the health care system” and came in only when desperately ill. “Everybody’s dying here,” she said. Read the full story on the overwhelmed hospital: https://nyti.ms/3tBose1 
An ICU nurse at the hospital said many patients had a “distrust of the health care system” and came in only when desperately ill. “Everybody’s dying here,” she said. Read the full story on the overwhelmed hospital: https://nyti.ms/3tBose1 
An ICU nurse at the hospital said many patients had a “distrust of the health care system” and came in only when desperately ill. “Everybody’s dying here,” she said. Read the full story on the overwhelmed hospital: https://nyti.ms/3tBose1 
An ICU nurse at the hospital said many patients had a “distrust of the health care system” and came in only when desperately ill. “Everybody’s dying here,” she said. Read the full story on the overwhelmed hospital: https://nyti.ms/3tBose1 
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