The intensive care units of some hospitals in California have reached the maximum capacity for increased coronavirus cases in the state and they no longer have beds to accommodate new patients, according to health authorities. Others go the same way, okay.
Health centers suffer from the avalanche of coronavirus patients who need medical attention to areas of East Texas and Nevada. “There are COVID patients all over the hospital,” he told a local media outlet of a disease working in the south of the state.
The situation is becoming more and more complicated also on a national scale: this Tuesday, those hospitalized with coronaviruses recorded nationwide were more than 104,000, a memory from the beginning of the pandemic, according to The Covid Tracking Project.
Currently, the most affected area in California is the central part of the state, mainly the San Joaquin Valley, where three counties are already at 0% chance of receiving new patients in the ICU, reported the newspaper Los Angeles Times.
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In San Jose, Santa Clara, there is already a hospital without beds, says KNTV, an affiliate of our sister network NBC News. “We have reached the maximum capacity”, said Paul Silka, director of the medical emergency department at the center.
Overall, across the county, where nearly two million people live, the situation is about to overflow. Ahmad Kamal, one of the health officials there, claimed that a total of 31 beds were available in the ICU on Tuesday. “This is 9.5% of our capacity. It’s the worst we’ve seen,” he said.
Much of California already has strong restrictive measures on the mobility of people to try to contain the advance of the coronavirus. The governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, recently imposed a curfew overnight, a ban on non-essential travel and issued orders to stay home in areas where open ICU legs have fallen by 15% debate.
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The LA Times reported that this Tuesday California recorded more than 35,000 new infections in 24 hours, a record since the beginning of the pandemic.
Latin communities were the hardest hit by COVID-19 last spring and summer, but now the disease has baited him in all population groups, says the San Francisco Chronicle.
“This is an increase that extends to all communities. Yes, the virus has disproportionately affected the Latino population, but it is not exclusive, ”said Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, a biostatistician at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Health officials and public health experts fear the worst is yet to come. “We know we can expect in the coming weeks an alarming increase in hospitalizations and deaths”, said Barbara Ferrer, Los Angeles County health director, the largest in the state with 10 million residents.
In particular, it increased, it was warned that the increase in travel and meetings during the end of the Thanksgiving holiday week may have contributed to the multiplication of cases, which will be reflected in reality in the coming days because the virus can take a long time to manifest after infecting a person. “I’d say we’re at the beginning of a Thanksgiving explosion,” Ferrer added.
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One of the most serious consequences of the virus spreading uncontrollably is that, in addition to no space, it also begins to shortage of available medical staff. “If there are more patients, we occupy more diseases and more doctors. Unfortunately we have no more ”; Olivia Olmos of the White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles told Telemundo News.
Following this situation, Newsom activated an emergency plan that plans to call health workers from outside California and prepare temporary hospitals to increase patient care capacity.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, warned on his side possible collapse of hospitals in a few days if the situation continues to worsen and restrictive measures are put in place if hospitals exceed 15% of COVID-19 admissions.
In Reno, Nevada, they are already caring for patients in a hospital parking lot.
With information from LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, KNTV, KSNV, AP.