California hospitals have been compared to a war zone with emergency tents used for major disasters set up in parking lots to treat patients suffering from this year's deadly flu outbreak. After the new year Loma Linda University Medical Center set up tents in their emergency room parking lot to treat flu patients. Doctors from the hospital said they had not seen emergency rooms this crowded since the 1994 Northridge earthquake that killed 57. This isn't the only medical center that has asked sick visitors to go home in order to prevent the spread of the disease. Hospitals nationwide, including Minnesota, Texas and California are turning young children away because they are the least likely to show symptoms of the flu.

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2018 16:39 UTC