Stay-at-home orders were raised Tuesday for two large parts of California as the increase in Covid-19 cases has put a huge strain on hospitals, health officials said.
“We know for sure that Southern California’s hospitals are in crisis, and some have begun implementing emergency care parts,” said Dr. John Kerry, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency. Mark Galli said in a video briefing.
No facility has yet notified the state that it is in full crisis care yet, but Southern California has made some decisions that will be a part of it, he said, including a decision on how to accept ambulances and staffing.
A hospital in Los Angeles turned its chapel into an overflow unit. Gali said the waiting time in some emergency departments has been much longer than usual and that hospitals are using post- and pre-operation beds to care for Covid-19 and other patients.
Governor Gavin News warned Monday that travel did all of that during the last holiday week but it became inevitable that the state would “rise to the top of the boom”.
Most of the state is in the area under home order, which requires some businesses, such as bars, wineries and hair salons, and the capacity of others is reduced – once the sector’s intensive care capacity falls below 15 percent.
Southern California and San Joaquin Valley remained at zero percent ICU availability on Tuesday, which doesn’t mean there are no beds but hospitals have had to go into bounce capacity. Orders were extended until 2021 and estimates will remain in effect until the ICU threshold is reached.
Los Angeles County health officials reported 227 more Covid-19 deaths Tuesday and said 7,000 people had passed through the outbreak for the first time since being hospitalized.
The county’s director of health, Dr. “In the aftermath of further suffering, many residents and businesses are behaving as if we are not living in the most devastating time of the most devastating epidemic,” Barbara Ferrer said in a statement.
She urged residents to cancel New Year’s parties, “We are each other’s guardians.”
Across the state on Tuesday, more than 1,200 cases were reported, and the average positivity rate is about 15 percent, according to the state health department. That’s more than 16 percent in Los Angeles County.
More than 2.1 million people have died of covid-19 in California and 24,500 have died, according to the state health department.
Northern California is the only region that is not under a home order based on regional investment. The biggest areas of concern are the Southern California and Los Angeles areas, News reported Monday.
News Los Angeles County Hospitals Percentage hospitals were “under diversion” on Saturday, meaning they can’t accept ambulances and must be moved elsewhere, News reported. Even in epidemics, the number was 33 percent before the current surge in cases, he said.
