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Some hospitals in states where coronavirus cases are surging are running out of beds. Doctors and nurses, who watched COVID-19 hit New York City hard, are concerned about what's next for their communities. Five front-line medical workers from Texas, Florida, Alabama and California, spoke to CBS News senior medical correspondent Dr. Tara Narula about their fears and the importance of wearing masks. Here's what they had to say. Dr. Theresa Tran; Houston, Texas "I remember really distinctly when the outbreak happened in New York City, we were all in our ERs down here in Texas," Tran said. "We started preparing, we started gathering PPE, and we were waiting for a front that we felt would come. And then wham, it hit with — after Memorial Day." "You start to become a little more concerned and a...

Sqirl is a restaurant in Los Angeles that is best known as a place where beautiful California people and tourists from Brooklyn have brunch. They do sorrel pesto brown rice bowls. They do a lot of different toasts. They do small-batch jam. Before she opened Sqirl, in fact, chef-owner Jessica Koslow spent a year as a jam impresario, selling small-batch preserves at farmers’ markets. Now, there is a Sqirl jam subscription. Very soon, there will be a Sqirl jam cookbook. By all accounts, it is very tasty jam. There is just one problem with the Sqirl jam: This weekend, self-described scientist and “food antagonist” Joe Rosenthal posted an in-depth Instagram story (“The Fungal”) in which “two former employees...

File photo of a squirrel looks out from a tree. Matt Jonas | MediaNews Group | Boulder Daily Camera | Getty Images A squirrel in Colorado has tested positive for the bubonic plague, also known as the "Black Death," according to local health authorities.  The squirrel was found in a town in Jefferson County, which is west of Denver, and is the first case in the region, health authorities said in a statement released Sunday.  The case comes about a week after authorities in a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia issued a warning after a hospital reported a case of suspected bubonic plague in a human. There were at least four reported cases of plague in people from Inner Mongolia late last year, according to the New York Times. Two of them were pneumoni...

A drug user in a Kyiv apartment. She benefited from a needle exchange program aimed at reducing HIV transmission among intravenous drug users in Ukraine. Participants in such programs face such obstacles as transportation shutdowns and stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic. Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images A drug user in a Kyiv apartment. She benefited from a needle ...