Covering the Coronavirus

Two months after California’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the state is preparing to confront what public health officials agree will be a peak in illnesses and deaths. Our guest is Soumya Karlamangla, who covers healthcare in California for the Los Angeles Times.

More reading: As states scramble to secure ventilators during the crisis, a potential shortage looms of respiratory therapists, the workers trained to operate them.

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