For EMTs crowded into ambulances, the coronavirus is always in the air Updated: January 25 Published January 25 Emergency medical workers Trenton Amaro, from left, Joshua Hammond, Thomas Hoang and Charles Navarro are crammed in an ambulance as they treat a patient in Placentia, Calif., Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. EMTs and paramedics have always dealt with life and death — they make split-second decisions about patient care, which hospital to race to, the best and fastest way to save someone — and now they're just a breath away from becoming the patient themselves.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Share on Facebook LOS ANGELES — It’s crowded in the back of the ambulance.