"Hospitals Overwhelmed by Pandemic Patients Are Treating Them in Tents"

"In California, which has been particularly hard hit by this season’s pandemic, several hospitals have set up large 'surge tents' outside their emergency departments to accommodate and treat patients"

The pandemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures: asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting friends and family visits and canceling elective surgeries, to name a few.

“We are pretty much at capacity,” says Dr. Alfred “Fettucini” Alf…