Can a delay in providing medical care manifest deliberate indifference?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Quair v. CDCR HQ, No. 2:19-cv-1106 DB P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
Delays in providing medical care may manifest deliberate indifference. Estelle, 429 U.S. at 104-05. To establish a claim of deliberate indifference arising from a delay in providing care, a plaintiff must show that the delay was harmful. See Berry v. Bunnell, 39 F.3d 1056, 1057 (9th
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