“It feels like we’re drowning here,” said Rao, a pulmonologist and critical care specialist at Keck Hospital of USC. “I look around at my colleagues’ faces and there’s a hollowness in their eyes, a fatigue,” said Rao. At the worst moment in the most horrific pandemic in a hundred years, too many of us aren’t playing it safe. In recent days, airport traffic has spiked and shopping malls are bustling, even as the L.A. County death toll hit 9,000. USC Verdugo Hills Hospital emergency room nurse Manny Khodadadi says COVID-19 patients have told him they feel ill after attending Thanksgiving gatherings.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 23, 2020 23:04 UTC