LA's Covid 'tsunami': inside the new center of America's raging pandemic

An exponential surge is crushing Los Angeles hospitals, with desperate nurses warning there's no place to take care of you'

Los Angeles is becoming the center of America's out-of-control coronavirus pandemic in these final days before the new year, with officials warning that a meteoric rise in infections is crushing the healthcare system in one of the country's largest metropolitan regions.

LA county has faced an onslaught of terrifying Covid developments in recent days, including a surge in deaths, dire shortages of hospital resources, and fears that doctors will have to make agonizing choices to ration care.