Report: Los Angeles County Ambulances Told to Leave Behind Patients with Hospitals Overflowing
5 Jan 2021
Los Angeles County’s Emergency Medical Services Agency has reportedly instructed ambulance teams to leave behind patients they cannot resuscitate at the scene.
On Sunday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the city is reporting new coronavirus cases every six seconds, adding to the over 827,000 reported cases over the course of the pandemic. Approximately 10,850 of those L.A. residents have died so far. And as hospitals once again move beyond capacity, authorities are facing grim decisions.
“Ambulance relieving stations” are being set up outside emergency rooms to help deal with the volume of patients being transported to hospitals, but the strain on both the ambulance crews and hospital staff remains untenable. Because of this, EMS teams have been told to reduce their use of oxygen via a directive distributed Monday.
Office of Mayor Eric Garcetti via AP, File
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti used to be widely regarded as a rising star in the Democrat party, someone who could be expected to run for President someday. After Joe Biden was the presumptive Democrat nominee in mid-2020, and despite Garcetti’s massive failure addressing the homelessness issue in Los Angeles, his name was floated as a potential running mate then Cabinet appointee.
Even as Los Angeles spun out of control amid prolonged Wuhan coronavirus lockdowns, Black Lives Matter “peaceful protests,” the unfortunate results of soft-on-crime policies, and even larger increases in homelessness, Garcetti could count on softball interviews with the mainstream media.
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Appearing on a Sunday news show, Mayor Eric Garcetti noted that the Los Angeles metropolitan region is the nation s densest and one of two primary reasons why we re seeing a person every six seconds contract COVID-19 here in Los Angeles County. January 6, 2021, 10am PST | Irvin Dawid Share
Margaret Brennan, the moderator of Face the Nation, a CBS Sunday news show, began her 6-minute interview (source article with transcript and video) with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) on Jan. 3 by asking, You are at the epicenter of this outbreak right now, and I saw you said a high percentage of deaths are among people with no underlying conditions. Why is the virus so deadly right now?
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