California was the first state last week to reach 2 million registered COVID-19 cases and is now the mainstay of the virus in the US. In Los Angeles County, the most populous province in the state, an estimated 6,500 people are hospitalized, four times the number from last month. The number of people in intensive care units (ICUs) is approaching 1,300, double the number from a month ago.
Every 10 minutes another patient in California dies from the pandemic, according to a New York Times database. Almost every hospital in the state is operating outside of its capabilities, providing portable beds and ration treatment for the most urgent cases. Many nurses and staff are complaining of tiredness and taking much-needed leave, and hospitals are scrambling to make up for the loss of staff.
Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has predicted that hospitals could reach up to 100,000 in January under current conditions. Although California was the first state to block it in the spring, government reopening policies have led to a dramatic rise in affairs. Last Thursday alone saw 351 new deaths in the state.
Health officials have been urging members of the public to stay at home during the holiday season, but Governor Newsom has yet to issue a state order for people to do so. The lack of clear guidelines from the state, coupled with the lack of government support for struggling workers and small businesses, has led to a perfect storm of viral diseases and unnecessary deaths and suffering.
As people travel for the holidays and the disease spreads they find fault with the rise in disease. At the same time, workplaces, schools and other major gathering places were allowed to proceed without systematic effort to find communication.
Mendy Hickey, director of quality at St Mary ‘s Hospital, told the New York Amannan, “At first, in particular, you saw those pictures and videos from New York and you think, ‘Oh my God, it can never be so bad here, ” Says, ‘And while we have all the products we need, it’ s so bad here, and we don’t have staff to look after patients. ” Ms Hickey told the Amannan she sometimes works 23 hours a day and, although she could spend Christmas morning with her three daughters, she had to return later in the day to hospital.
Since the outbreak began, pandemic California has seen more than 2.1 million positive cases and more than 24,220 people die from COVID-19, according to the California Department of Public Health.
In the last two weeks alone, there have been an additional 570,000 cases and 3,250 deaths, receiving an average of 41,000 new cases and 231 deaths per day. Last week, California reported the highest number of new cases per person in the past week of any state, according to Johns Hopkins University.
This week more than 19,750 patients will be hospitalized for the virus in California, including 4,228 in ICUs. Both numbers are now twice as high as those recorded in the summer when around 7,200 were hospitalized with 2,050 in intensive care.
According to state officials, the total collection of ICU access has been at zero percent since Christmas Eve. While not all districts are functioning inefficiently, two ICU zero-bed departments, Southern California and San Joaquin Valley, are now operating under emergency protocols to continue treating poor patients, regardless of COVID-19 them or not.
Only these two departments were ordered to stay at home by the governor three weeks ago. The order restricts indoor and outdoor dining at restaurants and closes businesses such as salons and workshops, as well as existing restrictions for purple-level counties.
The mobile and irregular character of the color code scheme of the controller is useless in stopping a virus that does not respect county lines. As previously mentioned, countless businesses and public institutions remain open, ensuring that the pandemic spreads unabated.
At a press conference Monday, Newsom said state Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Mark Ghaly will soon provide ICU forecasts that will guide the timeline by which each district will complete the home stay orders. Expansion is promised in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley.
Hospitals across the state are so large that it was revealed over the weekend that Kaiser Permanente would be postponing “selective and non-emergency surgeries” at his hospitals in Northern California for a week. , from now until January 4, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
Health officials are concerned about the potential impact of holiday gatherings for Christmas and New Year to deepen the crisis. An increase was reported in early November and worsened after Thanksgiving Day, and now officials fear the Christmas holidays will increase the number of diseases, hospitals and deaths in the coming weeks. ahead.
Newsom said in a recent video message that the state is projecting its numbers will double next month to more than 36,000 patients in the hospital.
Meanwhile, vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna began arriving this week at skilled nursing facilities in California. These resources are in “Phase 1a” of the state’s major inoculation campaign. The other group in Phase 1a is made up of frontline health care workers who deal directly with COVID-19 patients, who have already started receiving shots in mid-December.
It is estimated that it will take a month to include the state’s 1,200 permitted nursing facilities, which contain some of the most vulnerable populations and have been hot spots for the entire disease. -discharged.