La ial facial emotionally underlying the giant covid-19 death toll – deadline

Months after trying to communicate the epidemic-boring effect of Covid-19, Barbara Ferrer, the county’s public health director, must have emphasized the urgency of the crisis more powerfully than all the numbers, charts and data visualizations in the moment of televised emotion. With.

Ferrer – who has given straight-forward updates on the virus since the epidemic began – was brought to tears on Wednesday and had to suspend his presentation, explaining that he had “significantly increased the number of people dying.”

“The most shocking truth is that more than 1,000,000 people – sorry …” Ferrer paused before breaking his voice as he paused and said with good tears, No. And his death is an incomprehensible loss to his friends and his family, as well as to our community. ”

He was rare from Ferrer, who has received death threats, faced protests outside his home, faced angry questions from reporters and uttered the ening deep epidemic of the region every day with patience, grace and incredible optimism.

Ferrer surveyed some alarming figures on Wednesday, showing a 300% increase in the average daily number of cases last month, up from 4,900 in the last week of November to 8,933 in the first week of December. He said the county’s latest rate of positive covid test results in early November was%. from% to the current 13. %%, as well as the number of hospital admissions, Nov. It rose from 791 on the 1st to 3,299 on Wednesday.

There were 3, ૨ reported people hospitalized due to COVID-19, which is another record.

An additional 9,243 new infections were reported in the county on Wednesday. That’s not far from the county’s daily record of 10,528 cases, which reached Sunday. New cases increased the county’s overall total since the epidemic reached 475,271.

The count also killed 75 more people in the county, bringing the overall death toll in the county to 8,075.

Covid-19 Daily Update:
December 9, 2020
New cases: 9,243 (from today 475,271)
New deaths: 75 (8,075 as of today)
Current hospitalization: 3,299 pic.twitter.com/RefLaryd3J

– LA Public Health (lapublichealth) December 9, 2020

According to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, these deaths are believed to be the first child deaths in the county and state due to complications of pediatric inflammatory syndrome, according to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has treated 32 patients with multisystem inflammatory bowel syndrome or MIS-C in children, the hospital said in a statement. “Patients range in age from 4 months to 17 years. Thirty-one patients have been successfully treated and discharged. One patient with a complex pre-existing cardiac condition died due to complications associated with MIS-C. ”

MIS-C can result in inflammation of body parts including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes and gastrointestinal organs, potentially affecting lifelong health.

Further details about the deceased child have not been released.

U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention According to the centers, about two dozen children across the country have died from the syndrome, in about 1,300 reported cases. In late October, Los Angeles County health officials reported a total of 43 known cases locally.

The CDC notes that children and adolescents “come into contact with someone after Covid-19 illness or with Covid-19.” Then associated with coronavirus. It is not yet clear what causes some children to develop the syndrome, while others who have coronavirus disease or have no contacts.

The rise in Los Angeles County COVID-19 cases has led to a dramatic increase in hospital and ICU admissions and is expected to increase to 70,000 daily admissions by next week, health department officials said Wednesday.

The director of the county department of health services, Dr. Christina Ghali said county hospitals are currently seeing about 500 new admissions every day. With the county’s COVID-19 transmission rate remaining high – and one in 140 people traveling in public considered to be infected – the number is expected to continue to rise.

“Given the number of hospitals we’ve just been admitted to as a result of the Thanksgiving holiday, we estimate that this number will increase in a few weeks from now to 700 new daily covid admissions in just one week,” Gali said.

With a new number of admissions, he said, the county is facing a potential shortage of total hospital beds – as we have seen in other California counties – and an expected shortage of ICU beds.

Hospitals will be forced to implement “growth plans” in the coming months to meet demand, Gali said. He noted that as of Wednesday, the county’s 70 “911 receiving” hospitals had polled a total of 1,096 available hospital beds and 129 intensive care unit beds.

He applauded the demand management by increasing the work of hospitals, noting that despite a 40% increase in the number of occupied beds, the number of available ICU beds has steadily increased from 110 to 175 in the last month.

Fast business in hospitals is also having a huge impact on emergency rooms, and more and more ambulances have been diverted to other medical centers. Hospitals can request a change in the ambulance for an additional two hours, usually due to the overcrowded emergency department, Gali said.

“This option is currently being used extensively throughout the county’s hospitals, with county 77% of LA county hospitals using diversion at certain times during the day yesterday (Tuesday).” “And that’s between 10 and 15 percent at this time of year, compared to normal.”

But with a 7% increase in new cases between the last week of November and the first week of December, the hospital’s diversions could be like rearranging a deck chair on the Titanic. The latest escalation of the case will lead to additional steps being taken in the hospital two weeks from now and the death toll will rise in the next two weeks.

“Where we are and where we are moving is absolutely worrying,” he said.

The City News Service contributed to this report.

See Ferrer’s introduction below.