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/PRNewswire/ -- The Medicare health plans in every region served by Kaiser Permanente have received a 5-Star rating — the highest possible — from CMS (the...

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Written by Brian Krans on January 29, 2021 — Fact checked by Jennifer Chesak Younger and healthier adults may have to wait until summer to get a COVID-19 vaccine, so they’re being urged to continue to follow safety precautions. People Images/Getty Images It appears many younger people and healthy adults may have to wait until summer to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Experts hope the approval of additional vaccines and quicker distribution can move up that timetable. Experts are urging the...

Print As California launches massive COVID-19 vaccination sites to speed up inoculations, concern is growing among public health officials that the supply of doses could soon dry up. State and local officials Friday complained that the scramble touched off by the federal government’s recommendation to add people 65 and older to vaccine eligibility lists has not been accompanied by an increase in shipments. That could add to an already confusing and chaotic vaccine rollout, and limit the nu...

Hospitals in South Los Angeles, the cities in Southeast L.A. County along the 710 Freeway and in parts of the southern San Gabriel Valley are experiencing the greatest capacity problems, the data showed. Many of these facilities are relatively small and are less able to add intensive care staff or expand bed capacity than the county’s biggest hospitals. Advertisement The data underscores how communities of color have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic, with Latino and Black residents...

L.A. hospitals are being stretched increasingly thin as the massive surge in coronavirus cases roars ahead unabated. Things are getting so bad that we could be looking at rationed care in the not-too-distant future. "We have no ICU beds," said Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer of L.A. County-USC Medical Center, one of the areas largest hospitals. "We are just continually, 24 hours a day scrambling to move patients around. The flood just continues." Within a matter of days, County-USC will b...

The number of available intensive care unit beds has plummeted in Los Angeles County from the continuing influx of hospitalized COIVD-19 patients, with only 92 ICU beds available Thursday countywide, according to data from the L.A. County Department of Public Health. With about 2,500 ICU beds in the county, that’s an availability far below 1 percent. The county has a population of more than 10 million people. According to state data, Ventura County clocked in at 35 beds available as of Wednes...