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https://www.latimes.com/california/story...-transfers

The coronavirus surge was going to kill her.

And she didn’t even have COVID-19.

She had woken up in a pool of blood earlier that day, so Billy had rushed her to Hi-Desert. The facility didn’t have the equipment to take care of Kim, he said. So the attending doctor began to call hospitals across the Inland Empire to see if Kim could be transferred to them.

None could accept her. They were swamped with COVID-19 cases

Everywhere, too full.

“The nurses were extremely distraught, and I’ve never seen them that way,” Billy told me five days later. “The doctor was getting frustrated.”

That’s when Billy volunteered to take Kim in his truck, strap on some off-road lights, and speed down California Route 62 toward Interstate 10. The plan: “get pulled over by police so we could get an escort” to the nearest hospital.

But that Hail Mary never came to pass. Shortly after their phone conversation, Kim’s health quickly deteriorated. She died at age 60, in the arms of Billy and her son.

...........

I asked him what he wanted people to take from Kim’s death. His eyes watered, but his voice was firm.

“I hope they learn,” he said, “that her last days were chaos.”

This sort of thing is happening all over Southern California I'm sure. Tragic.

[dabigv13]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story...-transfers

The coronavirus surge was going to kill her.

And she didn’t even have COVID-19.

She had woken up in a pool of blood earlier that day, so Billy had rushed her to Hi-Desert. The facility didn’t have the equipment to take care of Kim, he said. So the attending doctor began to call hospitals across the Inland Empire to see if Kim could be transferred to them.

None could accept her. They were swamped with COVID-19 cases

Everywhere, too full.

“The nurses were extremely distraught, and I’ve never seen them that way,” Billy told me five days later. “The doctor was getting frustrated.”

That’s when Billy volunteered to take Kim in his truck, strap on some off-road lights, and speed down California Route 62 toward Interstate 10. The plan: “get pulled over by police so we could get an escort” to the nearest hospital.

But that Hail Mary never came to pass. Shortly after their phone conversation, Kim’s health quickly deteriorated. She died at age 60, in the arms of Billy and her son.

...........

I asked him what he wanted people to take from Kim’s death. His eyes watered, but his voice was firm.

“I hope they learn,” he said, “that her last days were chaos.”

This sort of thing is happening all over Southern California I'm sure. Tragic.