'It's what we feared:' Hospitals from Georgia to California face surging COVID-19 cases, staff shortages and rising deaths

Damien Scott thought things couldn't get worse thaninAugust when a nursing home coronavirus outbreak left his rural east Georgia hospital with a mass of critically ill patients. But Emanuel Medical Center is again full with a new wave of COVID-19 patients, leaving the Swainsboro hospital effectively full since Christmas with new patients immediately replacing those who are discharged.