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Medical troops arrive to assist hospitals overwhelmed by COVID patients in LA, Riverside counties

"It’s a disaster right now," California nursing officer says From CNN's Adrienne Vogt Nancy Blake, chief nursing officer at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, speaks with CNN's Sara Sidner.  CNN California hospital workers are sounding the alarm as a coronavirus surge in the state is pushing hospitals to breaking point. "It's a disaster right now for our staff. The patients are extremely sick; this is a horrible disease. … It's been 10 months of this, and we are inundated," said Nancy Blake, chief nursing officer at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Blake said her staff is mentally and physical...

Chief nursing officer at California hospital: 'It's a disaster right now for our staff' CNN 12/23/2020 © CNN Coronavirus infection rates are exploding in California -- and it feels like we are failing the very people who make it their business to try and save us when we are sick or hurt or dying. In one day, nearly 40,000 new infections were reported this week, even as 98% of the state is under a state at home order, according to state public health data. Clearly that is not what people are doing. Nearly 19,000 Covid-19 patients are currently hospitalized in California with 3,861 of tho...

L.A. County's overflowing COVID hospitalisations 'a disaster'23/12/2020|3min The chief nursing officer at one of California's busiest hospitals has labelled the current COVID situation in California a “disaster” for her staff, saying the health crisis is worse than it was in July. California has seen a 63 per cent increase in hospitalisations over the last two weeks. At the Harbor UCLA Medical Centre, patients have been moved to the emergency room because there are no more intensive care unit beds available for use. Los Angeles County has not a single licensed ICU bed open, all 25,000 o...