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Reports: Los Angeles Hospitals at Capacity, Turning Away Ambulances, Planning for Rationed Care as COVID Death Toll Mounts
Breitbart ^ | 12/29/2020 | Rebecca Mansour

Posted on 12/29/2020 11:21:57 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Los Angeles area hospitals are at a breaking point due to the coronavirus pandemic in Southern California, where the mounting death toll has overwhelmed intensive care units and led to contingency plans for possibly rationing care.

Though coronavirus hospitalizations are stabilizing in parts of California, patients are still overwhelming hospitals in a large swath of the state, leading California Gov. Gavin Newsom to warn that the state must brace for the effect of a “surge on top of a surge” from recent holiday travel.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: capacity; covid; fakenews; flubros; hospitals; losangeles
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What about the homeless?

I take it that the homeless population of Southern California has been decimated during this horrendous pandemic - being that they are not able to shelter inside their homes like the rest of us.

61 posted on 12/29/2020 12:35:39 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: nascarnation
It's important to keep those future Democrat voters healthy!

Not really! If they die, they will continue voting Democrat!
62 posted on 12/29/2020 12:36:11 PM PST by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
So very sad when the truth is out there about Hydroxychloriquine, Ivermectin, Vit.D3 and Zinc.
Each of these would cure it in 3 days or less!!
63 posted on 12/29/2020 12:36:40 PM PST by high info voter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hospitals in the Los Angeles area have been closing for years. I am far from an expert (now live in TX - yea!), but if there is a shortage of beds then it’s not from too many flu patients, it’s from a decrease in the number of hospitals. This reduction has been going on for awhile (20 years maybe). Like its water, power and forests, CA lacks proper management of medical resources. It has maybe half the acute care beds than NY or Penn. Boutique full-service hospitals have increased (if you have the $$), but these you will never see and don’t even know you are driving by them. “In all, 27 acute care hospitals closed their doors statewide between 2001 and 2007. But 11 of those, representing 58% of the licensed beds in the state that closed, were in one county: Los Angeles...” Link to report is here: https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/california-has-fewer-acute-care-beds-population-other-big-states


64 posted on 12/29/2020 12:41:45 PM PST by texaskristen25 (Many Los Angeles Hospitals have Closed.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

¿COVID-19? ¿Máscaras faciales? ¿Distanciamiento social? ¡No entiendo!

Translation: COVID-19? Facemasks? Social distancing? I do not understand!

Meanwhile 12 illegals living in one apartment. ¿Conseguir la conexión?


65 posted on 12/29/2020 12:46:19 PM PST by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This report needs a check — by people out there we can trust.


66 posted on 12/29/2020 12:47:01 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam, )
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To: Sacajaweau
The President will build you a field hospital in 20 minutes. But you’d rather have the panic to keep the power of shutting everything down.

The President already sent them a hospital ship but they sent it back.

67 posted on 12/29/2020 12:52:20 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: matt04
"Have they had to bring in the refrigerated trailers yet and park them in a conspicuous spot for good measure?

Like these trucks:

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

68 posted on 12/29/2020 12:56:35 PM PST by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Mr. K

My daughter is a nurse at a local hospital and they are being overwhelmed. She sent me a picture the other day and there were 7 ambulances in the parking structure and they are triaging incoming patients in the covered ambulance parking structure. A good amount of the hospital beds are now COVID beds. And yes there is a refrigerator van there as a temp morgue but it has not been used.

The good news. They have just brought on many traveling nurses to help out and hired about 100 new graduate nurses. They have a survival rate of about 93% of ICU COVID patients. In order for a COVID patient to get to the ICU they really really have to be ill. If 93% of the really bad COVID patients recover then overall death rate of COVID still remains minuscule. They are just seeing a flood of illness like they have never seen before.


69 posted on 12/29/2020 12:58:50 PM PST by greenolive
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
At the bottom: “The Associated Press contributed to this article.”

After some research I think She is a Breitbart reporter not associated press. Correct me if I am wrong. Breitbart might be producing fear porn.

She is giving Associated Press credit as a source where she wrote "Meanwhile, California health office are moving quickly to vaccinate health workers and people at nursing homes and then expand to other groups, likely including teachers, the Associated Press reports.".



The author Rebecca Mansour is writing the article.

Author page look at url www.breitbart.com/author/rebecca-mansour/

It would be nice if we had an on location Free Republic member to confirm the article.
71 posted on 12/29/2020 1:05:20 PM PST by DEPcom
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To: Glide Plane

“my work is in LA County hospitals and as a matter of fact I was at Cedars Sinai yesterday and from what I could see there were plenty of open beds and the ER was maybe at 50% capacity.”

I got excited when I read your statement but your membership day of 12-14-2020 quickly deflated that excitement.


72 posted on 12/29/2020 1:08:21 PM PST by DEPcom
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To: bassmaner

“Considering the actual survival rate, availability of therapeutics and vaccine rollout, NO ONE should be dying from COVID now.”

Add the amount of time the Hospitals had to prepare for this, did they not get the memo back in the spring. Did they waste all the federal tax dollars by not preparing?


73 posted on 12/29/2020 1:10:19 PM PST by DEPcom
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To: Lisbon1940

“I was in an emergency room in Oakland yesterday. It took seven hours to get a bed. When I was treated and left the hospital at 2 am, I saw that the ambulance cases were all lined up in the parking lot.”

Where the ambulance cases line up normal for Oakland. If I remember correctly Oakland is San Fran right? Are they reporting bed shortages there too?


74 posted on 12/29/2020 1:14:08 PM PST by DEPcom
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To: V K Lee

I’ve been asking myself this as well. Our hospital has 3 times the icu level patients we are set up for, so much that we were kicked out of our area (recovery) and relocated in an overflow area. Staffing level for icu patients is usually 1-2 per nurse, it’s been 3-4 for the last month. No Bueno. Last summer we had some military units come in and help out. We never used the off site field hospital that was set up. My question is, why does the county health officer ask for help again? We are supposed to be getting travelers next week, but why not ask for military units as well?


75 posted on 12/29/2020 1:18:18 PM PST by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn’t mean you have to approve of it. )
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To: DEPcom

???

I know I’m new here, but what does my membership date have to do with anything? Is there some sort of secret ritual or vetting process I need to go through before posting on this forum? Is this forum like the Masonic Lodge, or do I have to wait to receive my Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Ring?


76 posted on 12/29/2020 1:19:00 PM PST by Glide Plane
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(from the article : " ..in Southern California, where the mounting death toll has overwhelmed intensive care units
and led to contingency plans for possibly rationing care. "

Since a non-responsive government has kept the State economy closed, supposedly to contain the virus,
do you honestly expect that same government to protect its population without regard to class, race, or political affiliation ?
I used to believe,..but not now !
Especially in Chinafornia .

77 posted on 12/29/2020 1:20:48 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rationed care sounds like something I heard several years back, but there was a different term for it . . . . can’t place my finger on it . . .


78 posted on 12/29/2020 1:22:43 PM PST by mykroar (God speed, President Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

...as FLU death toll mounts...


79 posted on 12/29/2020 1:24:22 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: bassmaner

the vaccine has barely started to be distributed. No one has had the second vaccination yet abs it is a few weeks after that for full immunity. Therapeutics are better but people are still dying and he’s going healthy people are still dying. Our area leaked a while ago and is easing up now but we were close to rationing beds last month. This is a real disease and people do get really ill from it regardless of what the popular belief is


80 posted on 12/29/2020 1:28:30 PM PST by Mom MD
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