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Medical care suffers across LA County even basic services outside COVID-19 wards [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CORONAVIRUS-LA-MEDICALCARE:LA]
LOS ANGELES Coronavirus patients are overwhelming many Los Angeles County emergency rooms and intensive care units, and hospitals are seeing ripple effects that harm operations and care across the medical network.
With 700 nurses from primary care clinics diverted to hospitals and other critical needs, county officials have been forced to temporarily shut five public primary care clinics across the county and reduce hours at most of the others, which provide children with immunizations and where people with chronic diseases have their medications managed.
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Los Angeles morgues overflow as funeral homes turn away families
By Matthew Ormseth, Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money and Soumya Karlamangla
January 2, 2021 11.30am
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Los Angeles: A monthslong surge of coronavirus cases in Los Angeles County is reaching its grim if inevitable zenith as deaths reach once-unthinkable levels, medical infrastructure is buckling under a flood of patients and officials fear the mortality numbers will only worsen in the coming weeks.
The county recorded an average of 151 people dying from COVID-19 each day in the past week - a figure that s almost as high as the average number of people dying daily from every other cause, about 170 a day. But more recently, those numbers have spiked considerably.