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    'We didn't have enough cribs': Inside a children's hospital strained by viruses

    LOS ANGELES — Priscilla Velazco brought her 16-month-old daughter to the hospital in Loma Linda on Christmas Eve, after the feverish girl had begun laboring to breathe. Four days later, Emilia was still at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, and her mother was still at her bedside, trying to soothe the toddler as she fussed and coughed. Oxygen was being piped to her nostrils through a ...
    by Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times Jan 05, 2023 5 minutes
    Priscilla Velazco keeps a watchful eye on her 16- month-old daughter, Emilia Zarazua, at Loma Linda University Children’ s Hospital on Dec. 28.

    LOS ANGELES — Priscilla Velazco brought her 16-month-old daughter to the hospital in Loma Linda on Christmas Eve, after the feverish girl had begun laboring to breathe.

    Four days later, Emilia was still at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, and her mother was still at her bedside, trying to soothe the toddler as she fussed and coughed. Oxygen was being piped to her nostrils through a device called a nasal cannula.

    "She was fighting them while they were putting it on," Velazco said of the device. It has been hard, she said, for a child so young to comprehend what is happening, why this unfamiliar thing has to be on her face. "That's the tough part — she doesn't understand."

    Emilia Zarazua had fallen ill with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV,

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