PHOTOS: Armed with a camera, a young ER doctor captures the faces of the COVID war
From behind her face shield, the young doctor stares straight ahead. She stands behind a COVID-19 patient lying supine on an operating table. A vitals monitor shows the man’s heart is pounding and that he’s taking 47 breaths per minute — quadruple the normal rate. A nurse’s gloved hand reaches over him, clutching a syringe. In the black-and-white photograph, the doctor’s eyes are wide. The person who captured the moment didn’t have to ask why. Dr. Scott Kobner outside L.A. County-USC Medical Center in Boyle Heights. When the COVID-19 pandemic began last spring, devastating Kob...
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