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L.A. County hospitals running dangerously low on oxygen, supplies as ER units are overwhelmed
Los Angeles Times ^ | December 25, 2020 | Luke Money

Posted on 12/25/2020 11:48:52 PM PST by L.A.Justice

Christmas arrived in Los Angeles County with hospitals in a full-blown coronavirus crisis.

There are now so many patients that some hospitals are running dangerously low on oxygen and other supplies critical to treating those with COVID-19.

Patients are waiting as many as eight hours in ambulances before they can enter the emergency room. With intensive care units at 0% available capacity, health officials are urging that people avoid emergency rooms or dialing 911 for assistance unless absolutely necessary.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: california
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I watched my local TV news...I got the impression that the CA health system will collapse very soon...

Supply shortage? They were not really prepared?

Asking for federal assistance? I have not heard of any CA elected official asking for federal help at this time...

I live in LA County...At this time, I would do my best to avoid going to the emergency room...

In the article, the LA County Health Director complained about too many people going to the shopping malls...She thought that some shopping malls are not following her orders...The shopping malls are supposed to maintain 20% capacity...I dislike this lady...

1 posted on 12/25/2020 11:48:52 PM PST by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

Why is Los Angeles such a stupid place? It’s one thing to be the biggest toilet in the Nation, but it’s another to be so damn stupid about it.

Just wall the damn place off like in “Escape From New York.”


2 posted on 12/25/2020 11:54:08 PM PST by Prole
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To: L.A.Justice

L.A. had 9 months to prepare themselves. We know Gavin Newsom will never ask President Trump for help.


3 posted on 12/25/2020 11:56:28 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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“I watched my local TV news...I got the impression that the CA health system will collapse very soon...”

That’s Cloward-Piven at work.


4 posted on 12/25/2020 11:57:51 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: L.A.Justice

And their solution to an overwhelmed system is to invite in more illegal aliens and give them “free” health care.


5 posted on 12/26/2020 12:00:01 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Except they don’t have money to pay for it. Their tax base are all leaving California. The entire California is to be on federal welfare to pull it off.


6 posted on 12/26/2020 12:11:49 AM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew
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To: L.A.Justice

I was in the emergency room once this week.....and in the hospital twice this week.

In the Emergency Room at Keck [USC] ... not crowded at all. I was in for massively LOW blood pressure, nit Covid although I was given a Covid test and was given an “all clear” 24 hours later.

I was in Cedars Sinai Hospital where almost all of my doctors are. As you know, the place is simply massive. I did not get an idea how crowded it was since I did not enter through emergency....but emergency on a normal day is almost unbelievable....a normal wait time of 6 to 8 hours to get any help at all. I went straight to my doctors office which had been closed for most of the year. I have been doing virtual visits with him. I’m going back again this week.


7 posted on 12/26/2020 12:17:03 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love BULL MARKETS!)
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Running short on oxygen? I work in a hospital ER. I’ve worked in two others in the last 25 years. You don’t run out of oxygen. That’s like saying “We’re running out of air’’.

This is fear mongering and it’s what the Democrats want. They want us all to be in a perpetual fear so we won’t notice we’re evolving into a police state.


8 posted on 12/26/2020 12:25:22 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: L.A.Justice

it they go to the ER without covid they’ll certainly probably leave with it....all those sick people...coughing..hacking, sneezing....


9 posted on 12/26/2020 12:25:31 AM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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and guess what....I'd guess most of these ER visits are from illegals....and they can't turn them away....

when they plead for people to not come to the hospital, they're basically telling the legal citizens to stay away.

10 posted on 12/26/2020 12:26:49 AM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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I thought California was one of the most masked, locked down states in the nation per orders of Führer Newsome. And yet, they are spiking into dangerous virus infections?

Two thought emerge:
- more lies to breath new life into the “pandemic” scam, cementing government control
- the socialist chicken coming home to roost


11 posted on 12/26/2020 12:26:52 AM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: L.A.Justice

This same article seems to run in LA papers every Friday.

Yes. They’re “overwhelmed” because the weekend is here and people are getting blasted and doing stupid things to themselves and each other.

It’s not COVID, it’s simply another weekend like every other weekend, with added gaslighting.


12 posted on 12/26/2020 12:34:12 AM PST by JennysCool
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To: BunnySlippers

I was in the emergency room in Visalia California. I had no taste and smell due to a ear infection. they put me in a small room with 30 other corvid patients waiting on tests. some in the room it was obvious with out the test they had corvid or bad flue reaction... two issues I had was why pack so many in the same room waiting for the test and why did they not separate those that it was obvious had covid from those that there was a Question mark. my test came back negative on covid but I have decided to self isolate because I think chances are the way that the emergency room treated it that I am a strong candidate to having caught it while there.


13 posted on 12/26/2020 12:38:50 AM PST by PCPOET7 (wwg1wga)
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To: L.A.Justice

While the AMA approved hydroxycloraquin protocol is still banned by the state.


14 posted on 12/26/2020 12:39:14 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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OMG...I agree with your analysis. I wish you well in avoiding Covid or any bad effects,


15 posted on 12/26/2020 12:41:28 AM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love BULL MARKETS!)
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okay why are they having a problem? The state has been shut down more than any other state.. If Staying home and covering your face is the norm than under the information from Dr. Farci than there shouldn’t be a problem!!


16 posted on 12/26/2020 12:42:35 AM PST by tallyhoe
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"was in the emergency room once this week.....and in the hospital twice this week.
In the Emergency Room at Keck [USC] ... not crowded at all."

Anything the MSM "reports" should automatically be questioned.

They have lost all credibility.

In fact, the more fear inducing the headline, the more likely the story is partially, or entirely, bullsh#t.

17 posted on 12/26/2020 12:46:25 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: PCPOET7

I was in the emergency room in Visalia California. I had no taste and smell due to a ear infection.
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I read your story...I don’t think the hospital was well organized...I think you have a good reason to be worried.


18 posted on 12/26/2020 12:46:39 AM PST by L.A.Justice
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More Covid Fear Porn IMHO.

Don’t most hospitals have their own institutional sized oxygen concentrator that is built in, to supply oxygen to every bed, every exam and OR room etc.?. Pretty much the only time they use oxygen tanks or individual concentrators is for transporting between rooms?

And even if they are using the tanks, don’t they have any welding gas suppliers in Los Angeles? Here is a dirty little secret: Medical oxygen usually comes out of the same machines that produce welding oxygen.


19 posted on 12/26/2020 12:54:07 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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It strikes me as very odd that the hospital would claim to be short on oxygen. I grant you, most larger hospitals have large tanks filled by companies like Air Products. That may be the preferred way to provide oxygen, but it is by no means the only way. They have these nice devices called oxygen concentrators, that use electricity and pumps, to run atmosphere through a rock sieve that yanks out all the nitrogen and provides sufficiently pure oxygen, at volumes up to six liters per minute. Available from DME suppliers.
20 posted on 12/26/2020 12:56:45 AM PST by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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