At the end of a week where health officials have related grim scenes from hospitals across California, there comes the announcement that available ICU capacity in the state has fallen to just 2.1%. That’s a staggering statistic in a state of 40 million people amid a pandemic.
California announced some 41,000 more positive test results on Friday. That makes it far and away the U.S. state with the most infections. The daily new infections in the nation’s second and third most populous states combined do not add up to California’s total. Texas’s newest count had it at 14,805 and Florida on Friday was at 13,148. Together, that’s about 28,000 compared to the Golden State’s 41,012.
In fact, California’s daily numbers this week are larger than those of most countries according to Johns Hopkins, including the UK, Russia, Turkey, India and Germany.
The ICU shortage has been top of mind all this week.
California announced some 41,000 more positive test results on Friday. That makes it far and away the U.S. state with the most infections. The daily new infections in the nation’s second and third most populous states combined do not add up to California’s total. Texas’s newest count had it at 14,805 and Florida on Friday was at 13,148. Together, that’s about 28,000 compared to the Golden State’s 41,012.
In fact, California’s daily numbers this week are larger than those of most countries according to Johns Hopkins, including the UK, Russia, Turkey, India and Germany.
The ICU shortage has been top of mind all this week.
- 12/18/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Under assault by the rising surge in Covid-19 cases, available space continued to dwindle Friday at Los Angeles County hospitals. As a result, health-care professionals were imploring the public to take the virus seriously to prevent medical centers from being overrun and unable to care for patients.
“We’re getting crushed. I’m not going to sugarcoat this. We are getting crushed,” said Dr. Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at Los Angeles County-usc Medical Center. “For most of the days of the last week, we’ve had zero ICU beds open in the morning, and we have had to scramble — ‘can we move this patient here,’ ‘can we move that patient there…’ We’re already expanding care into areas of the hospital we don’t normally provide that type of care in.
“And it isn’t just Covid patients,” he said. “It’s car accidents and heart attacks and victims of violence.
“We’re getting crushed. I’m not going to sugarcoat this. We are getting crushed,” said Dr. Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer at Los Angeles County-usc Medical Center. “For most of the days of the last week, we’ve had zero ICU beds open in the morning, and we have had to scramble — ‘can we move this patient here,’ ‘can we move that patient there…’ We’re already expanding care into areas of the hospital we don’t normally provide that type of care in.
“And it isn’t just Covid patients,” he said. “It’s car accidents and heart attacks and victims of violence.
- 12/18/2020
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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