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For weeks, he said, those coming through the hospital’s emergency room doors have often admitted to attending Thanksgiving celebrations with large groups of family and friends. Over the last few days, he said, the number admitting to such gatherings has decreased.
Now, he said, everyone on the front lines is praying that Christmas doesn’t follow the same pattern. The system, they warn, simply does not have enough trained workers left to handle yet another holiday spike. Just getting through the current one, Tovar said, has required a certain kind of battlefield mentality.
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San Diego County posts new COVID-19 case record; ICU staff wearing thin [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
San Diego County set a fresh single-day coronavirus case record Friday as it became increasingly clear that local intensive care capacity is stretched much thinner than bed occupancy numbers suggest.
The county health department’s daily COVID-19 update includes 2,867 additional cases, besting the previous record set on Dec. 4 by 580. An additional 23 coronavirus-associated deaths appeared in the report, and total hospitalizations hit 965, representing nearly 21 percent of the 4,627 total patients in beds across the region Thursday.
The situation is most severe in intensive care units.
Friday’s report indicates an occupancy rate of 82 percent of all ICU beds in the county. However, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer, indicated Wednesday that this number is a bit misleading. Not all of those beds that remain open have enough staff available to be filled at s
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San Diego County set a fresh single-day coronavirus case record Friday as it became increasingly clear that local intensive care capacity is stretched much thinner than bed occupancy numbers suggest.
The county health department’s daily COVID-19 update includes 2,867 additional cases, besting the previous record set on Dec. 4 by 580. An additional 23 coronavirus-associated deaths appeared in the report, and total hospitalizations hit 965, representing nearly 21 percent of the 4,627 total patients in beds across the region Thursday.
The situation is most severe in intensive care units.
Friday’s report indicates an occupancy rate of 82 percent of all ICU beds in the county. However, Dr. Wilma Wooten, the county’s public health officer, indicated Wednesday that this number is a bit misleading. Not all of those beds that remain open have enough staff available to be filled at state-mandated nursing ratios.