‘We didn’t have enough cribs’: Inside a children’s hospital strained by viruses
LA TimesPriscilla Velazco brought her 16-month-old daughter to the hospital in Loma Linda on Christmas Eve, after the feverish girl had begun laboring to breathe. It has been hard, her mother said, for a child so young to comprehend what is happening, The collision of RSV, influenza, COVID-19 and other viruses has strained children’s hospitals across the country this fall and winter, including Loma Linda in the Inland Empire, where “these numbers are beyond what we’ve ever had,” said Dr. Cynthia Tinsley, chief of its division of pediatric critical care. Dr. Cynthia Tinsley, left, chief of pediatric critical care at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital, greets nurse Chovi Parenteau outside a patient’s room. “You can kind of see life coming back into them.” Nurse Joshua Goodman works behind a festively decorated desk at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital three days after Christmas. Nurse Mollie Perez ties her isolation gown before entering a patient’s room in the emergency department at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital.
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