By City News Service
Jan 1, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - On yet another day of record-setting COVID-19 deaths, Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday that conditions continue to worsen at hospitals, with ambulances waiting up to eight hours to off-load patients, leading to a shortage of paramedic crews on the streets and longer 911 response times.
“The current surge of patients . it s kind of a hidden disaster, said Cathy Chidester, director of the county Emergency Medical Services agency. “It s not a fire. It s not an earthquake. It s not a train wreck that s right in the public view and they can see what is happening and they can avoid that area. It s all happening behind the doors of households and hospitals. So nobody is really, the general public, is not really seeing what is going on.
By City News Service
Jan 1, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - On yet another day of record-setting COVID-19 deaths, Los Angeles County health officials said Thursday that conditions continue to worsen at hospitals, with ambulances waiting up to eight hours to off-load patients, leading to a shortage of paramedic crews on the streets and longer 911 response times.
“The current surge of patients . it s kind of a hidden disaster, said Cathy Chidester, director of the county Emergency Medical Services agency. “It s not a fire. It s not an earthquake. It s not a train wreck that s right in the public view and they can see what is happening and they can avoid that area. It s all happening behind the doors of households and hospitals. So nobody is really, the general public, is not really seeing what is going on.
2020-12-31 04:35:35 GMT2020-12-31 12:35:35(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) Los Angeles County said Wednesday that the most populous U.S. county has crossed its own grim threshold of 10,000 deaths from COVID-19.
The county reported 274 more coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll since the outbreak of the pandemic to 10,056, according to the latest data released by the county s Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer during an online briefing conference.
Meanwhile, the county reported 10,392 more cases, much lower than Tuesday s 12,979. Ferrer attributed the decline to the closure of testing sites were closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas.
Los Angeles County hit another grim milestone Wednesday, announcing its highest single-day total of COVID-19 fatalities and pushing the death toll over 10,000,.
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