Coronavirus Health collapse in California due to Covid-19: hospitals reject ambulances and border on the total occupation of ICUs
In Los Angeles County, one person dies with Covid every ten minutes
and in hospitals there are only 17 beds left in intensive care units for a population of 10 million people.
The situation is so extreme that ambulance operators have been advised not to bring in patients with little chance of survival, such as serious cardiorespiratory arrest.
It is better to die at home because in medical centers there is no oxygen or means or space.
Getting sick here, whatever the ailment, is almost reckless.
Another record was broken on Monday since the pandemic began.
74,000 new cases
were registered
in California
, 11% more than the previous mark established on December 28, when 66,726 positives were reached in a single day.
Regarding deaths, 379 were reached, with a daily average of 343 during the past week.
No state has such a bleak picture as California, with 2.4 million cases and 27,027 deaths since the pandemic began.
As the authorities anticipated, the situation has worsened over the days and should be further aggravated by family gatherings during the Christmas holidays.
The situation is so desperate in some hospitals that doctors and nurses are faced with the daily decision of who to treat and who to leave waiting.
There are patients who have been forced to stay in an ambulance for more than eight hours before being admitted to the hospital.
"Hospitals are declaring internal disasters and having to open gyms to qualify as hospital units," said
Hilda Solís
, the Los Angeles County supervisor.
"Our medical staff are physically and mentally exhausted and ill."
On Monday there were 7,600 people admitted with Covid in Los Angeles, with 21% of them in the ICU.
Hence the saturation and scarcity of resources, with instructions to only administer oxygen to those patients with a blood saturation below 90%.
The governor of California himself,
Gavin Newsom
, has organized an emergency team to get more oxygen to the centers most in need.
The strategy now is to discharge patients as soon as possible to free up beds for the most urgent cases.
The problem is that the numbers still don't add up.
Some 700 people were being admitted each day in Los Angeles County around Christmas but only 500 were leaving. It is also feared that the new strain detected in December in the United Kingdom and that has already appeared in California will worsen the situation.
According to what is dictated by the Californian health authorities, among the patients who should not be sent to hospitals are those with heart attacks, no pulse, no movement or breathing, and whose
resuscitation
efforts
must be carried out inside the ambulance .
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