Pediatric hospital beds are in high demand for ailing children. Here's why
TOPSHOT - Health care workers tend to a Covid-19 patient in a Covid-19 holding pod at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, Californi...
TOPSHOT - Health care workers tend to a Covid-19 patient in a Covid-19 holding pod at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, California on January 11, 2021. - As Covid-19 tears through southern California, small hospitals in rural towns like Apple Valley have been overwhelmed, with coronavirus patients crammed into hallways, makeshift ICU beds and even the pediatric ward. When AFP visited St Mary hospital in this desert town of 70,000 people this week, palliative care supervisor Kari McGuire said her team were seeing "astronomical numbers of patients who are dying" from the novel coronavirus.