U.S. states under tremendous strain as daily COVID-19 deaths rise amid winter surge
In California, the most populous state where Los Angeles County remains a pandemic epicenter, cremation limits were suspended for 10 days to deal with a backlog. Author: Associated Press, Douglas Jones Published: 2:49 PM PST January 18, 2021 Updated: 3:04 PM PST January 18, 2021
Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.
As Americans observed a national holiday Monday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pleaded with federal authorities to curtail travel from countries where new variants are spreading.
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Los Angeles County has temporarily suspended air quality rules in order to allow covid-19 victims to be cremated, according to an executive order passed by the South Coast Air Quality Management District over the weekend. The rules will be suspended for 10 days as the region works through a “backlog” of people who have died from the coronavirus pandemic, which is still uncontrolled in many parts of the country.
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LA Coroner’s Office Looks to Refrigerated Trailers to Accommodate Surge
Los Angeles medical officials are preparing to use refrigerated trailers to house a potential need for surge storage during the ongoing CCP viruspandemic.
“In preparation for the pandemic, [we] installed refrigerated storage units in the beginning of April 2020. The units have remained largely unused until recently,” Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner Dr. Jonathan Lucas said in a Jan. 8 press release.
“[Our agency] has sufficient storage for current needs; however, the department is expanding capacity to meet potential future demands.”
More than 900,000 residents of Los Angeles have been diagnosed with the CCP virus since the pandemic began last March. More than 12,000 people have died, according to the Los Angeles Department Health.