During the peak, MLK treated more COVID patients than some LA hospitals three to four times its size. “We’ve created a separate and unequal hospital system and a separate and unequal funding system for low-income communities,” she said in an interview. His older daughter bought vitamins and a humidifier and instructed him to lie on his stomach — proning, as many COVID hospital patients do, to improve lung function. But the friend reassured her that the new MLK hospital was nothing like the old one. Still, 86% of COVID patients who had been intubated at MLK had died, according to hospital statistics.

Source: bd News24 February 08, 2021 11:15 UTC