I seems too many down your way in So. Cal. think the same way as you and now us in N. Cal are paying the consequences as your hospitals have filled...
Overwhelmed Southern California transferring coronavirus patients to Bay Area hospitals
PUBLISHED: July 5, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 5, 2020 at 7:56 a.m.
mercurynews.com
- Stanford and UCSF are among the hospitals treating COVID-19 patients from Imperial County along the Mexican border
At least 500 patients have been transported out of Imperial County during the pandemic. One night, Cardenas said, his team mobilized five or six helicopters and three or four planes to move patients.
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According to the state’s hospital data, Imperial, which has fewer than 300 beds and a couple of dozen ICU beds, was down to zero ICU beds on June 22, a figure that has since fluctuated but remained low. At the end of June, Riverside, which has roughly 385 ICU beds under normal circumstances, had filled nearly all of them. And health officials are warning that the more than 2,000 ICU beds in Los Angeles could be full in weeks.
I hope they don't infect any of my friends or doctors..... or use up all our Remdesivir....
“Because the number of COVID-19-positive inpatients at Stanford Health Care is still low (16 as of June 30), medication supply levels, including remdesivir, are not a concern in the decision to accept transfer patients,” Arthofer said. |
