Annel Meza, an ER nurse at Riverside University Health Systems, is the mother of 11-year-old Naima Villa and is 26 weeks pregnant. One widely cited study found that each additional patient a nurse has is associated with a 7% increase in mortality. AdvertisementDr. Simon Mates is the co-director of the ICU at Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles. Mates, the ICU co-director at Dignity Health California Hospital Medical Center, even participated in the Pfizer trial, noting that he is eager to see the vaccine take some of the pressure off frontline workers. “We saw what happened in New York when hospitals were overwhelmed because they didn’t have enough people or equipment,” Pedraza said.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 16, 2020 15:03 UTC