LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — As officials continue to urge people to refrain from gathering in groups, administrators at Cedars-Sinai hope a message from a COVID-19 patient will drive home the importance of staying home this New Year’s Eve.

“I thought COVID-19 was a joke,” Walter Gomez Saldana said in a video posted Thursday to YouTube. “I didn’t think it could get me the way it has.”
Published: Jan.01: 2021