A healthcare workers sleeps during a break at 2 AM in the lobby.
Jennifer Guinoo, a respiratory therapist, prepares to enter Gabriel Flores’ room in the ICU .
Gabriela Flores listens to Dr. Joseph Meltzer who explains her husband’s condition through a nurse who interprets in the ICU.
ICU nurses, respiratory therapists and Dr. Richter attempt to resuscitate a patient during a Code Blue.
A healthcare worker pushes a patient into a triage tent outside the Emergency Department.
Trevor Garcia, a member of the National Guard, pushes Daisy Murcia out of the tent to be admitted to the hospital.
A man sits in the the triage tent for those with COVID-19 symptoms outside the Emergency Department.
Carolina Guerrero embraces her husband, Jose Guerrero, after his passing from COVID-19, as his daughter, Marisol, stands next to her in the ICU.
Maria Alcalan looks at her son, Gabriel, via Zoom from Mexico.
Gabriel Flores in his bed in the ICU.
Emilio Virgen’s hand in the I.C.U.
Edith Parredes lies in her bed in the telemetry section of the hospital. Ms. Parredes, 45, was hospitalized at M.L.K Jr. Community Hospital in South LA for Covid-19 for three months. She is a mother of four who has emigrated to the US from Mexico 21 years ago. Ms. Parredes was eager to get home to her children. Prior to her hospitalization, she was working as a housekeeper.
Gabriela Flores visits her husband, Gabriel, in the ICU is reflected in a window that reveals the emergency room entrance at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South LA.
Michelle Goldson, a nurse, prepares to cover Emilio Virgen after towel bathing him in the ICU.
B.J. Brown Jr, a member of the transport team, prepares to take a body of a patient with Covid-19 from the ICU to the hospital morgue at M.L.K Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles, California.. Mr. Brown has worked at the hospital since it opened five years ago. He opted to wear a Tyvek suit while working to protect his children. His 9 year old daughter calls every shift to confirm that Mr. Brown is ok.
BJ Brown Jr, a member of the transport team, prepares to take a body of a patient with Covid-19 from the ICU to the hospital morgue at M.L.K Jr. Community Hospital in South Los Angeles, California. Mr. Brown has worked at the hospital since it opened five years ago. He opted to wear a Tyvek suit while working to protect his children. His 9 year old daughter calls every shift to confirm that Mr. Brown is ok.
Kenneth Ludgood, a member of the transport team for five years, pushes a gurney that carries the body of Gabriel Flores into the temporary morgue.
Jose Ayala, who has COVID-19, cries for his wife and children, as he sits in his room.
Gabriela Flores cries, as her mother-in-law speaks on the phone with a relative in Mexico two days after Mr. Flores’ death, at the Flores family home in Los Angeles.
Family members of Maria Serrano and her son, Victor Serrano, embrace as they watch the burial of their coffins at Park Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Both Maria and Victor passed away from COVID-19 related complications in January 2021.