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California hospitals facing oxygen supply shortage
Breitbart ^ | 12/30/2020 | David Aaro Fox News

Posted on 12/30/2020 9:36:37 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Southern California hospitals, already overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, are now facing a new problem — a shortage of oxygen, according to a report.

Officials say they’re having trouble getting the necessary amount of oxygen to critically ill coronavirus patients, with supply issues causing at least five Los Angeles County hospitals to declare an “internal disaster” on Sunday, which included turning away ambulances.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; hospitals; oxygen; shortage
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To: rigelkentaurus
Bring in more sick Mexicans to these hospitals!

One would love to learn the numbers non-citizen patients and their relative proportion to United State Citizen patients.

If I were a betting person, I might wager something approaching 40 to 60 percent.

And, as an aside, how many of these patients are professional vagrants?

41 posted on 12/30/2020 12:13:14 PM PST by Seaplaner
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Watch them raid every welding facility.


42 posted on 12/30/2020 12:27:31 PM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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To: Herodes

You misspelled Trillions.


43 posted on 12/30/2020 12:32:21 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only in California would the most abundant element on earth be in shortage.


44 posted on 12/30/2020 12:34:14 PM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Soros and Gates probably cornered the market on air and want to force the Ca. government to pay a premium for it .... Apple and Tesla considering a joint venture (with massive government subsidies) to import air from Mars.


45 posted on 12/30/2020 12:46:06 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: PGR88

California seems to mismanage everything.

Sounds familiar......


46 posted on 12/30/2020 2:34:19 PM PST by wardamneagle
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I believe this was caused at least in part by a fire in the manufacturing plant in Taiwan where a majority of the world’s supply is made. I don’t know if this is the right article, the headline looks related:

https://medicalkidnap.com/2020/12/22/worlds-second-largest-hydroxychloroquine-plant-in-taiwan-blows-up/


47 posted on 12/30/2020 3:33:23 PM PST by mbj
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To: Sacajaweau

We never heard much about his tremendous efforts to get auto makers and other manufacturers to ramp up production of ventilator machines.

Maybe the President needs to exert his authority to get oxygen production ramped up as well.


48 posted on 12/30/2020 3:58:24 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: mewzilla

Astonishing data in that dashboard.

The top 5 counties are all Southern California where there is a total of 12,945 patients out of 20,162 patients in all of CA. Those top 5 SoCal counties account for 64% of all California patients. All SoCal counties account for 61% of California’s population.

The Greater San Fran Bay Area has 2,300 patients, about 11% of all California patients. The nine counties in the Bay Area have 7.75 million people, 20% of California’s population.

What in the world is going on in SoCal?


49 posted on 12/30/2020 4:12:55 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Since the WuFlu stats are crap it’s hard to tell.


50 posted on 12/30/2020 4:14:58 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: lowbridge
"There's plenty of it outside."

All you have to do is concentrate it and you can do that with a "medical oxygen concentrator." The medical supply companies don't seem to have banners saying "SOLD OUT!"

51 posted on 12/30/2020 4:15:59 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

illegal aliens in high density housing not social distancing etc..


52 posted on 12/30/2020 4:23:10 PM PST by rolling_stone ( its time)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’m sure oxygen is just a phone call away. Lazy on someones part.


53 posted on 12/30/2020 4:40:40 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

“Lazy on someones part.”

That really is true. After all the hubbub about lack of beds, lack of ventilators, etc, etc and then Trump ramping up ventilator production and getting the military hospital ships dispatched (but not used) and cities building emergency hospitals all over the country (most of which were not used) and converting the Jacob Javits Center in NYC to a hospital (again not used), you would think SOMEBODY would have asked: “What will we need if this gets bad again? What shortages might we experience? What do we need to stockpile? Where and how can we get supplies like Oxygen?”

The hospital execs HAD to have conducted war gaming exercises for such planning, right?


54 posted on 12/30/2020 4:46:15 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: mbj

Wow, had not heard about that. Was this reported by any other more mainstream news agency?


55 posted on 12/30/2020 4:47:41 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Reuters is “mainstream”.

But the mainstream media, the American media, is not interested in something that happens half a world away, for a medication THEY have already decided cannot be used to treat the pandemic, because they are so much smarter than the doctors who think it should be used.


56 posted on 12/30/2020 4:52:07 PM PST by mbj
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To: zigmeisterxiv

An interesting find.
I wonder if there are state regs that have forced this out of the state?


57 posted on 12/30/2020 4:54:19 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: blueunicorn6

they’re stacked in refrigerator trucks until the coroner can get to them; this isn’t Ecuador ...yet.


58 posted on 12/30/2020 5:35:26 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: mbj

I hear you about that. But the sources for this HCQ factory explosion in Taiwan seem really sketchy.

Choose your poison — sketchy web sources or Reuters/AP. Sigh.


59 posted on 12/30/2020 9:44:03 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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