On the same day that the epidemic in California reported its highest death toll ever since the onset of the epidemic, Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said the LAA has violated its own terrible threshold. On Wednesday, since the onset of the epidemic, the county has lost Kovid – 19 to 10,000 people.
Specifically, Los Angeles County reported 274 deaths out of a total of 10,056 people infected with the virus in the past 24 hours.
According to Ferrer, the daily death toll from the virus averaged about 1 per day. That’s the same number of deaths from all other causes, which is about 1 is0, “Ferrer said. “Very heartbreaking is that if we had done a better job of reducing the transmission of the virus, many of these would not have died.”
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“The impact of this current boom is affecting our hospitals and increasing the number of deaths.” The percentage of Kovid infected patients who are now being sent to the ICU has risen from 20% last week to 26% on Wednesday. So it’s not just the virus that is proving fatal, but also Angelnos ’nightmare of death because they can’t get proper care from a clogged ICU.
“Some patients are waiting in the ambulance because there is no space,” said Hilda Solis, LA County Supervisor. “Our medical examiners are getting body overflows from hospitals that are unable to store them.”
Solis continued: “I understand that the medical examiner will receive assistance from the California National Guard for his operation, and we look forward to seeing him by next Monday. That’s such a horrible reality, but I’m compelled to say this because it has reached the point where we need to show the true toll of what this virus has taken and what it can take.
“There are many situations in which as many as 10 ambulances are waiting for patients to load, and those patients are being treated in ambulances and as if they are part of the emergency room bay,” said LA’s director of health and human services. Christina Ghali.
“Hospitals are treating patients in other areas that are not commonly used for patient care,” she added, “not just for patient care. They use places like conference rooms or gift shops to provide patient care.” Doing. “
Health officials warned that bad current affairs, public travel and gatherings over the Christmas holidays in January, would make them worse, and are likely despite the New Year’s weekend warning.
“We all need to be prepared for another boom that will start in early January with even higher case numbers,” Ferrer said. “Rising cases are always taking more and more people to crowded hospitals and tragic consequences continue to kill more people.”
Given the amount of travel and intermilling that is likely to occur during the holidays, Ferrer said, “We need to be prepared for this extra peak.”
Further, on Wednesday Dr. On top of conversations with Anthony Fauci, California Governor Gavin News revealed that new, allegedly more infectious strains of the first known Covid-19 in the UK were found in CA, especially in Southern California.
News said he was informed “about an hour ago” that new tensions had been found in the state. While the variety is much more contagious, however, it does not seem to be more lethal on a case-by-case basis, according to experts. Fawcett said he was not surprised that there was one case and “probably more cases in California.”
It paints a very bleak picture of the coming week in LA, on top of the overflows and deaths described by LA county health officials.
“Many of the county’s mortuaries are being filled and they’re having trouble trying to make room,” said Gaili, who oversees the four county-run hospitals. “This is leading to body backups from a variety of facilities across the county.” Galley said the county “is trying to work with those facilities and it comes up with options for storing institutions.”
The LA County Morg, which oversees it, “had 386 open spaces at the end of yesterday,” Galley said. The issue, he said, is in private hospitals that are experiencing body backup problems due to the high capacity of mortuaries. The county’s medical examiner has taken charge of that ability – or lack thereof.
A few weeks ago, Cedar-Sinai had two floors dedicated to Kovid-19 patients, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said. As of Wednesday, the hospital had eight floors occupied by virus patients.
“There have been some unfortunate consequences for patients who cannot be admitted to hospitals on time,” said Lee, who opened the beds in the beds of patients waiting in the ambulance. When asked for specific matters, she did not provide them.
Also Wednesday, 10,392 new cases were reported in the county. The low number of new cases daily is probably due to the fact that test centers were closed during Christmas, Ferrer said.
Covid-19 Daily Update:
December 30, 2020
New cases: 10,392 (756,116 as of today)
New Death: 274 (Today’s Date 10,056)
Current hospitalization: 7,415 pic.twitter.com/qJtwIIs9ZR– LA Public Health (lapublichealth) December 30, 2020
“There’s a lot of community outbreaks, and this makes the virus easier to spread,” Ferrer said earlier this week. “So we’re going to do everything we know how to do to contain all the viruses.”
“Please don’t go out of your house to celebrate New Year’s Eve. If we don’t, the beginning of 2021 will be worse than the end of 2020, “said Dr. Gali.
The City News Service contributed to this report.
