CNN’s medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Rainer explained, “When you lose capacity, the physicians and biologists at these hospitals will need to decide which patients are eligible to be saved – potentially redeemable – and which patients are not.”
In the wake of the case, Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles will be placed in a state of need for ration care, said CEO Dr. Elaine Bachelor said Monday.
“If we are to see an increase in the number of Kovid patients, we may be forced to do something that, as health professionals, we all hate to just think about,” Bachelor told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin.
At the Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, nurses who normally care for one or two patients now care for three or four, said infectious disease specialist Dr. Kimberly Shriner told CNN on Sunday.
“We have a limited number of ventilators, we have a limited number of ICU beds,” Schreiner explained, adding that a team including a bioethist, a community member, a physician, a nurse and an administrative leader would decide how to allocate those resources. If it comes down.
“If you don’t have breathing, you don’t have nurses to take care of patients, you don’t have an ICU bed, we have to have this terrible discussion with families, that’s why people need to stay home, and when they go out, mask them. Need to wear, ”Rainer said.
Battlefield radius techniques
Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital will not turn to patients, Bachelor said, but employees can use the techniques used in combat.
“What we use on the battlefield is called the Trijek technique, which assesses the needs and prognosis of each individual and uses the rare resources with patients that are most likely to benefit them.”
Already, resources are being used in an unconventional way to accommodate the increase.
“Our staff has been incredibly skilled and flexible to accommodate the growing number of patients, so as you may have heard, we have five tents outside the hospital.” “In our conference room, there are patients in our chapel.”
He said many guerrillas are taken to the gift shop.
While the bachelor has not specified how many new patients are Covid-19, the increase in their number is putting a strain on all care.
Christina Ghali, director of LA County Health Services, said some hospitals are seeing patients who are still in ambulances.
“Those patients are cared for and treated in the ambulance as if they were part of the emergency room bay.”
Experts say the USA needs to be vaccinated
U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention According to the centers, U.S. About 2.1 million doses of the vaccine have been given so far and more than 11.4 million doses have been delivered as of Monday.
Another .7 7 million will be distributed by the end of the week, said Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary of health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It will bring more than 15.5 million doses into the hands of total states.
In addition to taking doses toward state leaders, New Jersey expects to vaccinate about 31,000 long-term care residents by the end of the week, Governor Phil Murphy said at a news conference Monday.
“With each passing day, our vaccination program is getting a little bigger and a lot stronger,” Murphy told reporters. “With the new year, we look forward to the opening of our six vaccination mega sites and the further expansion of our vaccination efforts and the continued movement by each priority group.”
Despite these developments, Dr Ashish Zai, dean of Brown University School of Public Health, said on Monday that the United States was lagging behind countries such as Israel and Canada in the pace of vaccination efforts.
“We really need to do this,” he said. “Things are in crisis.”
Producers like Pfizer have millions of doses awaiting allocation, he said, citing parts of the problem to the federal government as not complying with their administration once the doses have been delivered to the states.
“There’s a lot of work to get the vaccine out of the state into the hands of the people, and we needed a clearer set than what was planned,” he told CNN’s Jim Acosta.
California sanctions are likely to be extended
Already hardened by the effects of the coronavirus, Los Angeles County has reported nearly 100,000 new cases in the past week, said Barbara Ferrer, LA County’s director of public health.
“The sad reality is that all indicators show us that our situation could get worse as soon as 2021 begins,” Ferrer said.
Home orders have been placed in Southern California and San Joaquin Valley under local order, which was due to expire on Monday. But given current trends in the sector and ICU capacity coming in at 0%, California Governor Gavin News announced that the order is likely to be extended.
The state added 33,170 new cases of coronavirus and 64 additional deaths on Monday. News warned that the slightly lower number of deaths is due to the reporting lag over the weekend.
Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency of California, Dr. Mark Galli will use the final data from Monday to announce the forecast on Tuesday based on a four-week period.
More than 2.1 million coronaviruses and more than 24,000 deaths have been reported in California since the epidemic began.
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