Doctors who fear they will have to make choices.

And tonight, Americans with preexisting conditions compromised immune systems.

They have real concerns.

And what one cancer patient told us that, she was told.

Here's NBC's Matt Gutman tonight from California Tonight, with fatalities spiking over 25% in just a single day nationwide health workers on the front lines making grim life and death decisions the basic antibiotics are really hard to get.

Even medications This Today, patients are becoming more short as we're using them more and more often.

So you're saying it's not just pee pee that's short anymore.

It's like the basic tools of the trade of medicine in New York State.

They project needing 25,000 Maur ventilators.

Ganja is an E R doctor in Westchester.

I'm nervous about one day having to look a daughter in the eye and not being able to say that I did everything that I couldn't that we don't have a ventilator for her mom, that we're gonna leave her on oxygen and hope for the best.

Valerie Roberts, from Sacramento, is a grandmother and cancer survivor.

Healthcare providers are warning people to stay away from emergency rooms unless they're very sick.

They're also warning the vulnerable Like Roberts.

She says an oncology supervisor called her to say she should try to avoid the e.

R.

For her own safety in the event of his surge.

She told her San Francisco station KGO that the doctor also said this.

I wouldn't be probably a candidate for a ventilator if it was between me and a healthy person.

Know the conversation was tough in it that if you get this virus and get complications with it, we need to discuss comfort care for you.

Comfort care, as in morphine?

Yes, her hospital released a statement about the conversation, saying clinicians regularly communicate with medically vulnerable patients to fulfill their current health care needs.

We will do everything we can to fulfill those wishes.

Both now and in the event of a hospital surge.

Mandy Hall was on duty when a desperately ill covert patient came in.

He required immediate intervention for life saving measures.

The virus had recently killed the man's wife, but they delayed into baiting him because he had a very special wish to see his daughter one more time did he tell you that he understood that once he was intubated, he might not come out of it?

He did.

That is the reason why he requested to speak with his daughter before he was innovative.

Excruciating moments for all of these families already affected by this.

Matt Gutman, with us live from Los Angeles again tonight, and Matt L.

A.

County, they've announced an unusually high percentage of those hospitalized just today have no underlying conditions.

That's right, David.

A startling 76% of people hospitalized here in L.

A county are otherwise healthy and statewide, the number of I C.

U cases has quadrupled just since Friday, David.

But there is a sliver of good news.

34,000 retired medical professionals are professionals out of work.

Have enrolled to get back in the workforce just over the past two days.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos here.

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