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Elise Morocco works in a very messy profession. An OB/GYN in residency at Los Angeles County Hospital, she is frequently splashed with fluids: “blood, amniotic fluid, pee, poop, you name it,” she detailed by phone, when I haltingly asked her to elaborate. In Morocco’s 24-hour shifts, she estimates that more than half the time she’s on her feet, walking and running around. As a result, her shoes take a lot of abuse. Those fluids? “They all fall onto my feet.”
In her sometimes 80-hour workweeks, Morocco said that the shoes she wears every day really matter. “I definitely started out trying to wear sneakers and it just wasn’t cutting it,” she said. “You just wear them out so much if you’re also exercising in them.” When Morocco discovered Calzuro clogs, which can be both sterilized in a medical autoclave machine and put in the dishwasher, she was an instant convert. “People in my profession talk about shoes
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Show Transcript BACK TO YOU. TONI: THANK YOU. THE URGENCY OF THOSE VACCINES IS ON DISPLAY RIGHT NOW IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE SITUATION IS GROWING DIRE BY THE DAY, AND A NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PARAMEDIC CREW IS LIVING IT FIRST-HAND. TY: KCRA 3’S LETICIA ORDAZ IS LIVE IN FAIRFIELD WITH THE CHALLENGES THEY ARE FACING WHILE ON ASSIGNMENT FOR THE STATE. LETICIA: GOOD MORNING. THERE ARE A LOT OF CHALLENGES. YOU KNOW IT IS A BAD SITUATION WHEN FIREFIGHTER CALL THE CURRENT CONDITIONS THEY ARE IN VERY DIRE AS WELL AS DESCRIBING THE SITUATION AS A WAR ZONE. THEY SAY EVERY MINUTE THEY ARE WORKING, THEY ARE BEING FLOODED WITH COVID PATIENTS OF ALL AGES WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES. THE FIRE FINALS FROM DEATHLY FIREFIGHTERS FROM FAIRFIELD TOOK THE FIREFIGHTER
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ORANGE, Calif. (AP) The U.S. topped 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time, breaking a record set just one day earlier, with several Sun Belt states driving the surge.
The tally from Johns Hopkins University showed the nation had 4,085 deaths Thursday, along with nearly 275,000 new cases of the virus evidence that the crisis is growing worse after family gatherings and travel over the holidays and the onset of winter, which is forcing people indoors.
Deaths have reached epic proportions. Since just Monday, the United States has recorded 13,500 deaths more than Pearl Harbor, D-Day, 9/11 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined.
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ORANGE, Calif. The U.S. topped 4,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time, breaking a record set just one day earlier, with several Sun Belt states driving the surge.
The tally from Johns Hopkins University showed the nation had 4,085 deaths Thursday, along with nearly 275,000 new cases of the virus evidence that the crisis is growing worse after family gatherings and travel over the holidays and the onset of winter, which is forcing people indoors.
Deaths have reached epic proportions. Since just Monday, the United States has recorded 13,500 deaths more than Pearl Harbor, D-Day, 9/11 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake combined.