L.A. Mayor Garcetti says the city is “on the brink” of new restrictions, but he also says he’d prefer more targeted interventions to stopping the coronavirus.What was once a facility with family practice doctors and an urgent care unit that treated things like cuts and colds has become a COVID-19 clinic, showing how a crush of coronavirus patients is straining intertwined healthcare systems.
“I never dreamed that we would be challenged like this,” Steve Judy, chief operating officer of Primary Health Medical Group, said as he visited the clinic where Thomas works. It’s taking sick people at least two days to get an appointment for a test. Primary Health will turn three more facilities into COVID-19 clinics by Dec. 30 and has plans to change over more if needed.
“We’re working them hard,” said Judy, who worries about his staff. “They’re almost all pulling overtime.” Idaho’s crisis plan divides the sick into categories, prioritizing those with life-threatening illnesses or injuries who are expected to survive and giving only comfort care to those who aren’t. Nickolas Orr was one of two soldiers meeting patients in their cars outside the Primary Health clinic.While Little was among the first governors to publicly wear a mask last spring, he’s declined to issue a statewide mandate, saying more people will wear them if it’s a choice.There’s plenty of resistance. About 64% of Idaho voters supported President Trump, who has been dismissive of mask wearing and ridiculed President-elect Joe Biden for wearing one during the campaign.
This article is a FLAT OUT LIE.
this was, was it not, a state where they were lax on masking and social distancing? Pretty much a Donald Trump wonderland?
Idaho has been shipping patients here for 2 months... and many there still think it’s a global scam. Even those that lay dying.
BS
PEOPLE must take control of the fight against C19! Leadership is dead, causing more deaths and infections, the community must rise up to the challenge and work together. Basic hygiene, distancing,masks and common sense will beat this virus, not rhetoric. Staying apart is together
But they wont
wow
My heart goes out to all Americans, no leadership is driving C19 cases and deaths. My state in Australia has just come out of the 2 nd wave, lockdown for 7 months with enormous ongoing consequences and financial damage. The people uniting was the driver to succeed, all together.
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