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Urgent cares don’t do shyt breh. If they can’t handle the situation the immediately defer to the ER. Some of them don’t even have proper equipment or meds to deal with illnesses.
That would depend on what was actually available. Every Urgent Care in my area where I've ever been to for my own care or where I've taken patients to has had on site labs for diagnostics, on-site pharmacies, x-ray machines, and basics you'd find on any crash cart.
It's wholly plausible that if they'd given him even minimal care like providing oxygen, getting his medical history, and treating him like an actual human being instead of telling him to go away and get his paper up, it would have increased his odds of surviving. He died six hours later after going into cardiac arrest. Care was delayed because he lacked insurance. That's the whole point the article and story is illustrating.
We don't know enough yet about his specific medical conditions and what care would have been available had he been insured. They don't even know for sure that he had contracted coronavirus. All we know for certain is that NO CARE WAS GIVEN. Suggesting his death was unavoidable is both an assumption and misses the point.