Full coverage: Disease, inequity and resilience in South L.A.

Officials say the Omicron variant has flooded the emergency room at Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, ground zero for hospitals besieged by a winter surge, with people who are not as sick.

In South Los Angeles and surrounding areas like Compton, mental disorders mostly go untreated until they have caused irreparable damage.

No medical procedure more visibly demonstrates how COVID-19 became especially deadly in these neighborhoods than diabetic amputation.

A Los Angeles couple has worked hard to eke out a living and provide for their daughter, who is trans. When COVID hit, they feared who would protect her after they’ve gone.

Richard Perry, who by his own sheer grit built a middle-class life for his family in Compton, was waging battle on two fronts: Fighting against COVID-19, and trying desperately to hold on to everything he had worked for.

For many patients, intubation can be a last effort to stave off death. But that doesn’t mitigate how terrifying the experience can be.