A directive to Los Angeles County emergency crews to avoid bringing adult patients into county hospitals who have little chance of resuscitation, or are proclaimed dead, reflects the seriousness of overstressed hospital conditions during the pandemic, says one expert. Under the order, emergency medics are not to transport patients to hospitals if “reasonable efforts” to resuscitate failed. “That person could be declared dead in the field rather than being brought from the field in order to be reexamined by a physician and be declared dead at the hospital,” Aaron Kheriaty, director of medical ethics program at University of California—Irvine Health, told The Epoch Times. “The directive itself is not something for the public to get alarmed about, but the directive is a sign of the severity of the situation in Los Angeles County that may be of concern to other patients who are brought to the hospital [and] encounter more delays in terms of evaluation and treatment than they otherwise would have under usual care-type circumstances.” Decisions …