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Los Angeles ambulance crews told not to transport patients who stand little chance of survival
CNN ^ | January 5, 2021 | Alexandra Meeks

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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TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: ambulance; chinavirusnews; coronavirus; covid19; ems; flubras; flubros; justacold; justtheflu; losangeles
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1 posted on 01/04/2021 10:22:42 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m calling this all BS. My buddy is a doc in Ventura.


2 posted on 01/04/2021 10:27:43 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: Truthoverpower

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


3 posted on 01/04/2021 10:28:53 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: Truthoverpower

As one clever free republic regular says “there must be bodies everywhere!”


4 posted on 01/04/2021 10:29:29 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again )
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To: Truthoverpower; blueunicorn6
I believe that is blueunicorn6.



5 posted on 01/04/2021 10:34:58 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction (President-Elect Conjunction Junction)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


6 posted on 01/04/2021 10:49:06 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Truthoverpower

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.


7 posted on 01/04/2021 10:52:59 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How can they have shortages when they’ve been saying for months there’s a surge or there’s going to be etc....


8 posted on 01/04/2021 10:54:29 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Truthoverpower
yES indeed , biggest grifter scam in world history . Many babay boomers are reaching that age where we will have a massive die off, the scammers are taking advantage of it

. 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

9 posted on 01/04/2021 10:55:02 PM PST by KTM rider (No enforcement of election laws is an attractive nuisance for communists)
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To: Truthoverpower

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.


10 posted on 01/04/2021 10:55:34 PM PST by dinodino ( )
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To: MinorityRepublican

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.


11 posted on 01/04/2021 10:59:44 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“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!


12 posted on 01/04/2021 11:00:02 PM PST by Scaramouch
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To: dinodino

Even President Trump was hospitalized for COVID-19. If it was the common cold, that would not have been done, obviously.


13 posted on 01/04/2021 11:00:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sounds like Italy


14 posted on 01/04/2021 11:03:32 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudso)
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To: dinodino

It’s less than the common cold for a majority of people. By the way- what happened to the yearly flu reporting?


15 posted on 01/04/2021 11:05:17 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor (Eliminating our enemies in their sleep on Christmas since 1776)
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To: ifinnegan
about 4 years ago, and every other year since I got the symptoms , feels like a cold coming on but it goes right to a fever, then turns to pneumonia, They would just tell me it was a "viral flu' and there was nothing they could do.

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

16 posted on 01/04/2021 11:07:12 PM PST by KTM rider (No enforcement of election laws is an attractive nuisance for communists)
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To: dinodino

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


17 posted on 01/04/2021 11:09:30 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudso)
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To: KTM rider

Yep.


18 posted on 01/04/2021 11:10:24 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: GreyHoundSailor
"It’s less than the common cold for a majority of people. By the way- what happened to the yearly flu reporting?"

they said flu is down 95%, no more Legionella or Pneumococcus either , its all COVID

19 posted on 01/04/2021 11:10:30 PM PST by KTM rider (No enforcement of election laws is an attractive nuisance for communists)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not true. If your oxygen levels are dropping anyone would be hospitalized


20 posted on 01/04/2021 11:10:35 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudso)
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