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Emergency medical workers Jacob Magoon, from left, Joshua Hammond and Thomas Hoang lift a patient onto a gurney in Placentia, Calif., Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. The COVID pandemic placed EMTs in intimate contact with infected people and required them to make split-second decisions about patient care and survival.

May 21, 2021

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