Posted on 01/04/2021 10:22:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
With intensive care units at Southern California hospitals nearly full because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) has directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals, and to conserve the use of oxygen.
Los Angeles and Southern California are dealing with one of the country's worst outbreaks of the novel coronavirus. ICU bed capacity plunged to 0% in Southern California last month, as more and more people were admitted to hospital seeking treatment for Covid-19.
Now, many medical facilities simply do not have the space to take in patients who do not have a chance of survival, according to the agency.
As of Monday evening, there were 7,544 people hospitalized in Los Angeles due to Covid-19 and just 17 available adult ICU beds, according to county health data. Due to the shortage of beds, the county EMS said patients whose hearts have stopped, despite efforts of resuscitation, should no longer be transported to hospitals.
If there are no signs of breathing or a pulse, EMS will continue to perform resuscitation for at least 20 minutes, the EMS memo said. If the patient is stabilized after the period of resuscitation, the patient would then be transported to a hospital. If the patient is declared dead at the scene or if no pulse can be restored, paramedics will no longer transport the body to the hospital.
Oxygen shortage: A shortage of oxygen in Los Angeles and the nearby San Joaquin Valley, thanks to Covid-19, is putting immense pressure on the system and forcing paramedics to conserve the supply.
In order to maintain normal circulation of the blood to organs and tissue needed for the body to function, EMS said an oxygen saturation of at least 90% will be sufficient.
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I’m calling this all BS. My buddy is a doc in Ventura.
They’re trying to ramp up fear of the common cold. It’s pathetic
You must see the puppet masters behind their puppets trying to push the communist front
They have willing masters in Democrats
As one clever free republic regular says “there must be bodies everywhere!”
Maybe when they say ‘little chance of survival’....they actually mean plain ole fashion ‘dead’? In that case, yeah....the coroner vehicle ought to be used.
Sure seems like bs.
I think if it’s true they’re hospitalizing anyone.
And apparently making people with acute health problems die so they can keep beds filled with Covid positive people.
How can they have shortages when they’ve been saying for months there’s a surge or there’s going to be etc....
. Almost all old people ultimately die with or from respiratory failure that they used to call "Natural Causes", now they call it COVID.
The new Medical Industrial Complex will harvest them as COVID victims to boost the newly emerging biotech Industry
weird times indeed .
Everything is COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID COVID
I’m sorry, but this virus is *not* the common cold. Pretending that it doesn’t really exist makes you, and this site, sound like crackpots.
They’re modeling the CCCP’s Black Maria’s? I’m sure there are some Russian immigrants who remember them, mainly hauled to prison but also used ambulances to transport to the mental wards and disappeared.
“If the patient is declared dead at the scene or if no pulse can be restored, paramedics will no longer transport the body to the hospital.”
He’s dead, Jim!
Even President Trump was hospitalized for COVID-19. If it was the common cold, that would not have been done, obviously.
Sounds like Italy
It’s less than the common cold for a majority of people. By the way- what happened to the yearly flu reporting?
Nowadays they would grab me and shove a respirator down my throat and milk the insurance for all its worth , then hope I die so they could throw me on the COVID pile.
I usually knew it was coming when I would encounter people in public projectile coughing nasty whooping hacking phlemie coughs all over town, in theaters restaurants grocery stores, people are ignorant idiots
No one is saying that. That makes you sound like a crackpot
Corona viruses have been around forever. If you are OLD or are OBESE your odds aren’t good if you catch it. Even then there’s less than a six percent death rate. For everyone else that gets it the recovery rate is very good....98% or better
Quit engaging in panic porn
Yep.
they said flu is down 95%, no more Legionella or Pneumococcus either , its all COVID
Not true. If your oxygen levels are dropping anyone would be hospitalized
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