Southern California’s ICU capacity has dropped by 0% as 379 new deaths are reported, breaking the state’s daily record.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (KABC) – ICU capacity in the 11-county Southern California region has fallen to 0%, amid a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases, officials said Thursday.

This announcement does not mean that there are no intensive care unit beds available.

Percentages in the state are adjusted downwards if the expected proportion of COVID-19 patients occupying ICU space in the counts is higher.

With the announcement of the death of capacity 379 California in the state came news of declining ICU capacity, recording the highest number of casualties in a single day since the epidemic began and breaking the previous day’s record.

Another 52,281 new cases of the virus were reported in the state, just 1,400 fewer than in California’s previous days.

If California were a country, here’s how it would rank based on Johannes Hopkins’ Covid-19, based on the December 16 daily case count:

1) USA 247,403
2) Brazil 70,574
3) California 53,711
4) UK 25,161
5) India 24,010
6) France 17,720
7) Italy 17,568

An average of CO0 people die every hour in LA County, during which hospitals are ‘under siege’

9,379 deaths equate to lives lost every four minutes over a 24-hour period.

In Los Angeles County, an average of two people die every hour from the virus, which a public health official calls something “explosive and very deadly.”
The Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is given primarily to state health care workers.

The state government will receive an additional 393,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine next week, according to the government’s Gavin News.

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