Coronavirus crisis squeezes ambulance operators

The coronavirus crisis is putting an unexpected financial squeeze on ambulance operators, ratcheting up costs and tanking revenue even as they audibly remind people of the virus’s proliferation throughout the county.Drivers and emergency medical technicians are spending far more time with each patient they transfer in ambulances. In some of the hardest-hit areas of the country, the first weeks of the outbreak in March were a chaotic flurry of…