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L.A. hospitals are being stretched increasingly thin as the massive surge in coronavirus cases roars ahead unabated. Things are getting so bad that we could be looking at rationed care in the not-too-distant future. "We have no ICU beds," said Brad Spellberg, chief medical officer of L.A. County-USC Medical Center, one of the area's largest hospitals. "We are just continually, 24 hours a day scrambling to move patients around. The flood just continues." Within a matter of days, County-USC will be forced to make its exhausted staff treat even more patients than they have been, he said. "We ar...

The number of available intensive care unit beds has plummeted in Los Angeles County from the continuing influx of hospitalized COIVD-19 patients, with only 92 ICU beds available Thursday countywide, according to data from the L.A. County Department of Public Health. With about 2,500 ICU beds in the county, that’s an availability far below 1 percent. The county has a population of more than 10 million people. According to state data, Ventura County clocked in at 35 beds available as of Wednesday, or 3.7 percent of total capacity. The Southern California region ICU bed availability is less t...