Doctors work through coronavirus surge, stress and patient isolation as vaccines arrive

In the Bay Area, hospitals still have some ICU capacity left, but health care practitioners are working hard to care for the influx of COVID-19 patients. The surge is leaving workers stretched thin and patients isolated. At the same time, coronavirus vaccines are being distributed to frontline health workers. Dr. Monica Bhargava, a pulmonary critical care physician working at a county hospital in Oakland, offers a glimpse at a day inside the ICU and what her experience with the vaccine has been like so far.

Civic · Mel Baker, Laura Wenus