By City News Service
US-HEALTH-VIRUS-TEST
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A coalition of Los Angeles-area unions are calling today for a sweeping four-week countywide lockdown next month to bring the surge of COVID-19 cases and deaths under control.
“Healthcare workers throughout Los Angeles are reaching their breaking point. They are understaffed, overworked and inundated with patients fighting for their lives, Sal Rosselli, president of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, said in a statement. “COVID-19 cannot be allowed to spread following the December holidays the way it spread after Thanksgiving. We all have to work together to keep this from getting worse, and that starts with people having the financial security to stay home.
Bay Area nurses battle hospitals over how many patients they can handle as coronavirus cases surge
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California Pacific Medical Center nurse Marika Burrell-Wright protests plans to add more patients per nurse.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Deanna Young (center), nurse at California Pacific’s Mission Bernal campus, and others protest the waivers.Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle 2020Show MoreShow Less
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CPMC nurse Katie VanSchoick’s top reads Year of the Nurse as she protests the waivers.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Nurses Maricris Barquilla (left), Daniel Stone and others protest outside the Sutter Health CPMC Van Ness campus over plans to add more patients per nurse.Lea Suzuki / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Nurses upset with Governor Gavin Newsom over nurse-to-patient ratio increase
Posted at 4:36 PM, Dec 16, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-16 21:35:17-05
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) â Several nurses across the state are outraged, following one of Governor Gavin Newsom s latest executive orders, allowing hospitals to increase the number of patients a single nurse will be required to look after, if needed.
Under the order, hospitals can change the ratio from one nurse per to patients, which is standard, to one nurse per three patients.
The order drew heavy backlash from the California Nurses Association, who calls the ratio change dangerous at their Wednesday press conference.
California orders more body bags as coronavirus cases claim more lives
By Don Thompson
California has ordered extra body bags with the rising number of virus deaths.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hospitals are filling up so fast in California that officials are rolling out mobile field facilities and scrambling to hire more doctors and nurses to prepare for an expected surge in coronavirus patients.
Meanwhile, California is distributing 5,000 body bags mostly to the hard-hit Los Angeles and San Diego areas and has 60 refrigerated trailers standing by as makeshift morgues in anticipation of a surge of COVID-19 deaths, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday.
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