They headed down the hill, swerving around burning cars and fiery boulders rolling down the hillside, with Florence coughing in the backseat.

You should call your doctor or go to urgent care if you experience severe shortness of breath, coughing, wheezing, chest pain, palpitations, nausea or unusual fatigue, and call 911 if the symptoms are life-threatening.

If you’ve done everything you can but your eyes are still watering, you can’t stop coughing, or you just don’t feel well, seek alternative shelter where the air quality is better.

Ms Benson said her son started foaming at the mouth and coughing up blood, so she decided to try to bring him to hospital herself.

Such infections can be more easily spread by coughing or breathing, which is pure pandemic fuel.