at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center told Yahoo News. “Patients are so incredibly sick and there’s so many of them.”
during a briefing on Monday, adding that the increase in numbers will have a ripple effect attributable to holiday parties and returning travelers.On Thursday, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services responded to the growing emergency by distributing 88 refrigerated trailers to be used as makeshift morgues.
“This latest surge has been incredible with the numbers coming in. They’re young, they’re older. They’re all over the spectrum,” Torbati says. In response to the dire situation, L.A. County’s Emergency Medical Services Agency issued a directive on Monday to cease transferring patients to hospitals if they could not be resuscitated, instructing paramedics to “use their existing authority to declare a patient’s death in the field if there is no pulse, rather than transporting the individual to a hospital” so as to conserve limited resources.
“Paramedics make that determination after a full assessment, which includes a measurement of oxygen saturation in the blood, and consideration of certain known or suspected underlying medical conditions,” Chidester said.
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