Authorities urged people to stay home, avoid living with people other than those they normally live with, and use mouth covers and masks to prevent a sudden increase.
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the authorities of California they warned their residents that it is too risky celebrate the holidays winter as before and that, if they do not change from planes, a could occur health disaster after the holidays: un explosion mortal of cases of coronavirus.
the state has registered half a million cases of coronavirus at the last few weeks.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that a projection model shows California could face nearly 100,000 hospitalizations in a month.
Authorities urged people to stay home, avoid living with people other than those they normally live with, and use mouth covers and masks to prevent a sudden increase.
Another rise in cases over the winter holidays will be disastrous for our hospital system and will ultimately mean that many more people will simply not be with us in 2021, “said the director of Public Health of the Los Angeles County, Barbara Ferrer, in a briefing.
The current increase is overwhelming emergency rooms in urban and rural areas, including the border with Mexico, where the hospital system warned it was running out of beds for patients.
Conditions at the Regional Medical Center The Center, in the southeast corner of the state, is desperate, even worse than during a summer wave, hospital officials have indicated.
We have no room for anyone. We’ve been holding patients for days because we can’t move them, we can’t get beds, “said Dr. Alexis Lenz, a doctor in the emergency room of the medical center in Imperial County, where about 180,000 people live. .
Of the 175 patients in the hospital on Monday, 131 had covid-19.
The center, licensed for 161 beds, had to erect a 50-bed tent in its parking lot and was converting three operating rooms for the care of virus patients.
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