Late Wednesday, the Orange County Health Care Agency issued an order suspending the ability of hospitals that take part in the 911 system to request a diversion of ambulances to other medical centers. Dr. Carl Schultz, the agency s EMS medical director, said in a statement that hospital emergency rooms have become so overwhelmed due to the COVID surge that almost all hospitals were going on diversion. If nothing was done, ambulances would soon run out of hospitals that could take their patients, Schultz said. Therefore, we temporarily suspended ambulance diversion. While this will place some additional stress on hospitals, it will spread this over the entire county and help to mitigate the escalating concern of finding hospital destinations for ambulances.
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By City News Service
Dec 16, 2020
SANTA ANA (CNS) - An American Civil Liberties Union attorney accused Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer of “baseless scaremongering for publicly criticizing a defendant s motion to lower his bail in an Irvine kidnapping case days after an Orange County Superior Court judge ordered the jail population to be cut in half during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ezra Schley, 72, of Huntington Beach, has been in custody since Aug. 30, 2019, on $1 million bail. His attorney, David Swanson, unsuccessfully tried in March when the pandemic began to get his bail lowered and filed another motion on Monday following Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson s ruling Friday.
Orange County rolls out mobile field hospitals to handle surge in COVID-19 patients
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. - Orange County continued to set new records on Tuesday for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations as county officials rolled out mobile field hospitals to handle the surge in patients.
The county logged 2,173 new COVID-19 infections, raising the cumulative case total to 107,937. Hospitalizations jumped from 1,287 Monday to 1,371 Tuesday, including 296 ICU patients, up from 288 the previous day.
OC hospitals requesting mobile units
Orange County continued to set new records for coronavirus diagnoses and hospitalizations as county officials rolled out mobile field hospitals to handle the surge in patients.