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‘Demasiadas muertes’, el drama en un hospital de Los Ángeles en medio de la crisis del coronavirus

Médicos de la Guardia Nacional auxilian al desbordado personal de salud. El centro de salud con 131 camas tiene 215 pacientes, la mayoría con covid-19

A California National Guard nurse (C) wears personal protective equipment (PPE) while working hospital staff to assist patients in a suspected Covid-19 patient triage area set up in a field hospital tent outside the emergency department of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. - Deep within a South Los Angeles hospital, a row of elderly Hispanic men in induced comas lay hooked up to ventilators, while nurses clad in spacesuit-looking respirators checked their bleeping monitors in the eerie silence. The intensive care unit in one of the city's poorest districts is well accustomed to death, but with Los Angeles now at the heart of the United States' Covid pandemic, medics say they have never seen anything on this scale. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP)
A California National Guard nurse (C) wears personal protective equipment (PPE) while working hospital staff to assist patients in a suspected Covid-19 patient triage area set up in a field hospital tent outside the emergency department of Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Community Hospital on January 6, 2021 in the Willowbrook neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. - Deep within a South Los Angeles hospital, a row of elderly Hispanic men in induced comas lay hooked up to ventilators, while nurses clad in spacesuit-looking respirators checked their bleeping monitors in the eerie silence. The intensive care unit in one of the city's poorest districts is well accustomed to death, but with Los Angeles now at the heart of the United States' Covid pandemic, medics say they have never seen anything on this scale. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) PATRICK T. FALLON
Una enfermera de la Guardia Nacional de California usa equipo de protección personal mientras trabaja con el personal del hospital para ayudar a los pacientes sospechosos de covid-19, en una carpa instalada en el Hospital Martin Luther King Jr., en Los Ángeles, California. Foto: AFP (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP)

Los Ángeles. Una hilera de personas mayores, la mayoría hispanas, yacen en coma inducido conectadas a ventiladores, mientras las enfermeras chequean sus monitores en un colapsado hospital del sur de Los Ángeles, cuando Estados Unidos bate récords diarios de fallecidos por la enfermedad.

Esta unidad de cuidados intensivos de uno de los distritos más pobres de Los Ángeles está acostumbrada a la muerte, pero ahora en plena pandemia de covid-19 en el país los médicos dicen que nunca vieron algo igual.

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