Arriving at the emergency department of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, people are treated in field tents, hallways, cubicles, former administrative offices and ambulance bays. That has flooded the emergency room with people who are not as sick, and whose preexisting conditions have been exacerbated by the virus. The emergency department was designed to treat 40,000 patients a year when it opened in 2015. “The reason all these people are in our emergency department now is because there is nowhere else to go. On Wednesday, the emergency room got access to an adjacent county building to add up to 18 more treatment spaces.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 23, 2022 16:00 UTC